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"I have rigorously tested the new FirmTek SeriTek/2ME4-E in my mule Mac Pro in 64-bit mode, and it not only worked flawlessly, but delivered awesome performance."
— Lloyd Chambers, diglloyd.com
"As you can see from the graphs, we attained 502MB/s with the four 2TB Hitachi drives we used for testing. Firmtek tested with four Samsung F3s and attained 570MB/s. We're looking forward to testing four of the new 6Gb/s Seagate Barracuda to see if they can each 700MB/s in a RAID 0 set. (Four SSDs could easily reach 700MB/s.) I mention those scenarios because the built-in SATA controller inside the Mac Pro maxed out at 615MB/s with four OCZ Vertex SSDs in our testing even though they are capable of a collective 1000+MB/s."
— Rob-ART Morgan, Bare Feats
"This graph compares the internal SATA ports to eSATA using the FirmTek SeriTek 2ME4-E 4-port eSATA card." "The FirmTek SeriTek 2ME4-E PCIe card is clearly the way to go for 5 or more drives.."
— Lloyd Chambers,
