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 E4P, you get the best of both worlds! This card offer unprecedented scalability through its support of port multipliers—it can handle up to twenty drives!(1)(2) 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 20 Terabytes (20,000 Gigabytes!) of storage!

Tempo SATA E4P delivers performance previously unattainable with mainstream technologies. The PCI Express 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 20 drives individually and hot-swap them out as needed. (3) 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 E4P—it'll give you room to grow and blazing performance for the most demanding applications.

Technical Notes:

(1) Support for 20 drives requires the use of drive enclosures employing port multipliers (like Sonnet's Fusion D500P, Fusion D400Q, and Fusion R400Q). Otherwise Tempo SATA E4P will support up to 4 drives.

(2) Western Digital manufactures Desktop edition (WD Caviar, Caviar SE, Caviar SE16, and Raptor X) hard drives and Enterprise (RAID) Edition (WD RE, RE2, and Raptor) hard drives. Each type of hard drive is designed to work specifically in either a desktop computer environment, or connected to a RAID controller (hardware or software-based). If you intend to configure Western Digital drives in a RAID set, Sonnet and WD recommend using only their Enterprise edition hard drives.

(3) 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.

(4) Mac OS X Version 10.5 compatibility requires firmware Version 2.1.3 or greater.

(5) While some customers have successfully used external hard drives with USB 2.0/eSATA dual interface, these products (based on the Oxford Semiconductor OXU931DS storage controller chip) exhibit underlying errors that prevent them from being fully compatible with this Sonnet product under Mac OS X. Kernel panics occurring when the drive is connected, and the drive not being recognized by the operating system are known issues. These drives include, but are not limited to:

• Western Digital My Book™ Premium ES Edition™
• Seagate Technology FreeAgent™ Pro

External hard drives with USB 2.0/eSATA dual interface based on the JMicron 20336 are fully compatible. These drives include but are not limited to:

• OWC Mercury On-The-Go USB 2.0/eSATA
2.5" Portable

Sonnet's Fusion D400Q and R400Q quad-interface storage systems are not affected by these issues, and are fully supported.

(6) Xserve not compatible with Sonnet SATA cable locking feature

(7) Advanced users note that this card is not yet compatible in full 64-bit boot. Snow Leopard default boots in 32-bit mode, except in an Xserve.

Key Benefits

• Affordable solution for adding four eSATA ports to your computer
• SATA II compliant, 1.5 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s auto-negotiation
• FIS-based port multiplier-aware to support up to 20 disk drives(1)(2)
• Native PCI Express (PCIe) x4 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(3)

Mac Compatibility

• Mac Pro
• Xserve Late 2006 (with PCIe Express slot)(6)
• Power Mac G5 (with PCI Express slots)
• Mac OS® X(5)Version 10.3+ (4)
• Mac OS X Server(6)(7) Version 10.3+
• Snow Leopard compatible, 32 bit kernel only(7)

Windows Compatibility

• PC (with PCI Express slot)
• Windows Vista(3)
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows XP SP2(3)

Technical Specifications

Specifications subject to change without notice