Tempo SATA E4i PCI Express card is an ideal companion to Sonnet G5 Jive internal drive mount system for Power Mac G5 computers.
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Do your storage capacity needs outweigh what your computer can support on its own? Stuff it—with Serial ATA drives, that is! Sonnet's high-performance Tempo™ SATA E4i 4-port Serial ATA host controller for PCI Express slots enables you to connect up to 4 additional internal SATA hard drives(1) for the perfect balance of easy expandability and superior performance. If you own a Power Mac G5, this card is an ideal companion to Sonnet's G5 Jive™ internal drive mounting hardware for Power Mac G5 computers—along with your SATA drives, this combination is the most cost effective way for adding up to 12 Terabytes of high-performance storage capacity to your G5.
Do you need more speed? Tempo SATA E4i offers 3Gb/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) set(2) will provide astonishing sustained read/write performance numbers, enough to capture and process multiple streams of HD video! Need more data security? Set up your drives in a RAID 1 (mirrored) or RAID 10 (striped/mirrored) set for up to 6 Terabytes of data redundancy. When you need more flexibility and performance than offered by standard solutions, get a Tempo SATA E4i—it'll give you room to grow and blazing performance for the most demanding applications.
Key Benefits
- High-performance interface for connecting four internal SATA drives inside your computer
- Supports Mac OS® X, Windows 7 (Professional or Ultimate), Windows Vista (Enterprise or Ultimate), Windows XP Pro, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2003 RAID features
- 3 Gb/s per port SATA II controller
- Native PCI Express (PCIe) x4 host bus interface for high-performance applications
- Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) support for compatibility with all SATA drives
- Supports hard drive hot-swapping(3)
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Mac Compatibility
- Mac® Pro(5)
- Power Mac G5 (with PCI Express slots)
- Mac OS® X Version 10.3+
- Snow Leopard compatible
Windows Compatibility
- PC (with PCI Express x4 slot)
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista®
- Windows XP
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2003
Technical Specifications
| Hardware |
| Warranty |
1 Year Manufacturer Warranty |
| RoHS Compliant |
Yes |
| Bus Interface |
PCI Express x4 |
| Internal Connectors |
Four SATA |
| Drives Supported |
Up to 4(1) |
| Data Transfer Rate |
Up to 255MB per second per port |
| ATAPI Support |
No |
| Drive Type Supported |
Serial ATA I & II; Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 (parallel)(4) |
| Firmware |
Flash-ROM upgradeable to latest firmware version |
| Bootability |
Not supported |
| Package Contents |
Tempo SATA E4i host controller card
One serial ATA data cable
Documentation & Software CD |
| Advanced Features |
- Supports hard drive S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) data reporting
- Spread Spectrum Clocking for compatibility with all SATA drivers and lower EMI emissions
- Bus Mastering frees CPU from data I/O handling
- 48-bit LBA support for drives larger than 137 GB
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Specifications subject to change without notice
Lion Compatibility Note: A Lion install removes the driver for this device. Just reinstall the
driver and the card will work again. |
