4-PORT SERIAL ATA PCI-X CARD; COMPATIBLE IN MOST POWERMAC G4, POWERMAC G5 AND WINDOWS DESKTOP COMPUTERS WITH PCI OR PCI-X SLOTS

Pure Performance, Pure SATAsfaction! When it comes to data storage capabilities, which do you prefer, raw storage capacity or scorching performance? With Sonnet's Tempo™ SATA X4P, you get the best of both worlds! This card offers unprecedented scalability through its support of port multipliers—it can handle up to twenty drives!(1) Used with high-performance drive enclosures like Sonnet's Fusion™ D500P, port multipliers manage the data flow of up to five drives in one enclosure through a single cable. Using today's highest-capacity drives, you can connect an astounding 40 Terabytes of storage! Tempo SATA X4P delivers performance previously unattainable with mainstream technologies. The PCI-X® interface offers huge bandwidth for data throughput, so the card never slows you down. For the utmost performance, you can create multiple RAID sets to capture and process uncompressed high definition video, or conquer other high-bandwidth applications. For fantastic flexibility, you can work with 40 drives individually and hot-swap(2) them out as needed. You can even work with a combination of RAID sets and individual drives—your choices aren't limited. When your storage needs have outgrown standard solutions, get a Tempo SATA X4P—it'll give you room to grow and blazing performance for the most demanding applications.

Key Benefits

• Affordable solution for adding four external SATA ports to your computer
• SATA II compliant, 3 Gb/s and 1.5 Gb/s auto-negotiation
• FIS-based Port Multiplier-aware to support up to 20 disk drives. Requires the use of drive enclosures employing port multipliers (like Sonnet's Fusion D500P, Fusion D400Q, and Fusion R400Q). Otherwise, Tempo SATA X4P will support up to 4 drives.
• PCI-X host bus interface for high-performance applications
• Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) support for compatibility with all SATA drives
• Supports Mac OS® X, Windows Vista (Enterprise or Ultimate), Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP Pro RAID features
• Hot-swap drive support. SATA drive hot swapping is not supported in a desktop or server PC running Windows XP, Server 2003 or Vista. A SATA drive appears to the system as a not-removable hard drive and there is no mechanism in Windows to prepare the drive for removal.

Technical Specifications

Mac Compatibility:

• Power Mac G5 (with PCI slots(3) or PCI-X slots)
• Power Mac G4 (with PCI slots)
• Xserve G4, G5 or Intel (with PCI or PCI-X slot). Please note, Xserve not compatible with Sonnet SATA cable locking feature.
• Mac OS X Version 10.5, 10.4.11, or 10.3
• Mac OS X Server Version 10.5, 10.4.11, or 10.3

Windows Compatibility:

• PC (with PCI or PCI-X slots). Please Note, Sonnet Tempo cards are compatible with most external SATA storage. However, external hard drives with USB 2.0/eSATA dual interface based on the Oxford Semiconductor OXU931DS storage controller chip may not be compatible with Mac OS X when connected via SATA. Known issues are kernel panics occurring when the drive is connected, or the drive not being recognized by the operating system.
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows XP SP2

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