Tempo Sata X4I Pcix Controller 4 Internal Sata Ports 3.0 Gbps

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Product Description:
Sonnet's Tempo SATA X4i 4-port Serial ATA Host Controller for PCI-X enables you to connect up to 4 additional internal drives for the perfect balance of flexible expandability and superior performance. This card is an ideal companion to our G5 Jive internal drive mount system for Power Mac G5 computers. Along with your SATA drives, this combination is the most cost effective way for adding up to 3 Terabytes of high-performance capacity to your G5.
Tempo SATA X4i offers 3 Gb/s per port data transfer support and gives you performance to burn. You'll get great performance from individual drives, but grouping up to four Serial ATA hard drives in a RAID 0 (striped) array will provide astonishing sustained read/write performance numbers enough to capture and process High Definition video. Set up your drives in a RAID 0 (mirrored) or RAID 10 (striped/mirrored) array for up to 1.5 Terabyte of data redundancy. When you need more flexibility and performance than offered by standard solutions, get a Tempo SATA X4i, it'll give you room to grow and blazing performance for the most demanding applications. Sonnet's Simply Fast design philosophy makes this installation a snap; you'll complete the process in a few easy steps. With no software to install, just insert the Tempo SATA X4i into an available PCI-X or PCI slot, connect, format your drives and get to work. Drive Types Supported - Serial ATA I & II, Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 (parallel) Plug and play, no device drivers to install Spread Spectrum Clocking for compatibility with all SATA drives and lower EMI emissions Bus Mastering frees CPU from data I/O handling 48-bit LBA support for drives larger than 137 GB Firmware - Flash-ROM upgradeable to latest firmware version Operating System Requirements - Mac OS X Version 10.2 or later, Windows XP SP2, PCI-X, 64-bit 133MHz, 32-bit PCI bus 2.2 Compliant, works in any PCI or PCI-X slot