Sonnet Tempo-X eSATA 8 Port Serial ATA PCI-X (3 GB) Host Controller

Do you need more speed? Sonnet's Tempo-X eSATA 8 Serial ATA PCI-X host controller card gives you performance to burn! Connect individual drives and you’ll get great performance, but group up to eight Serial ATA hard drives in a RAID 0 (striped) set using Mac OS X Disk Utility and you will expose the true prowess of this card—exceptional speed. Just how fast are we talking? More than enough to capture and process uncompressed 10-bit High Definition video!

Are your storage requirements bigger than your Mac can handle? Tempo-X eSATA 8 can help you out of that jam—with eight external ports and a dedicated controller for each, add additional drives any time you like to maximize your storage capacity—using today’s highest-capacity drives, you can connect an amazing 6TB (Terabytes) of storage! If you move your drives around, this card will help protect your data—it uses eSATA (external serial ATA) connectors that are designed specifically to support external storage solutions and offer superior durability and enhanced EMI (electromagnetic interference) protection.

When your storage needs have outgrown standard solutions, get a Tempo-X eSATA 8—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-X eSATA 8 into an available PCI-X or PCI slot, connect and format your drives, and get to work!

3 Gb/s SATA II host controller

64-bit, 133MHz PCI-X Serial ATA host controller

Works in any PCI-X or PCI slot in the listed compatible computers*

8 external ports featuring eSATA connectors

Supports hot-swap drive connection

48-bit LBA support for drives with a capacity larger than 137 GB

Spread Spectrum Clocking for compatibility with all SATA drives

No drivers to install; plug and play installation***

Supports Mac OS® X’s built-in RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring) functions

Upgradable firmware to enable future enhancements

True plug and play, no device drivers to install***

Deep sleep support

Hot-swap drive support

Spread Spectrum Clocking for compatibility with all SATA drives

Bus Mastering frees CPU from data I/O handling

48-bit LBA support for drives larger than 137 GB

MAC OS:
Mac OS X Version 10.2 or later

Windows System:
PC with PCI slot
Windows XP

***Mac OS driver is built-in. Windows drivers are available on Sonnet website.

Bus Type: 64 bit, 133MHz PCI-X, 32-bit PCI bus 2.2 Compliant
External Connectors: 8 eSATA interface connectors to support up to 8 disk drives
Data Transfer Rate: Up to 300 MB/s per port
ATAPI Support: No
Drive Types Supported: Serial ATA, Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 (parallel)
Upgradeability: Flash-ROM upgradeable to latest firmware

Environmental:
Temperature:
Operating: +5 C to +55 C
Non-operating: -25 C to +10 C

Relative humidity:
Operating: 20% to 80%
Non-operating: 15% to 90%

Tempo-X eSATA 8 PCI-X Controller Card

Quick Start Guide

TSATAII-X8

Compatible with Power Macintosh G3 Blue & White, Power Mac G4**, Power Mac G5 (with PCI and PCI-X slots only)*, Xserve G5.

*In Power Mac G5, installation is supported in slots 2 and 3.
** All models except Cube.

Sonnet gives a 3 year limited warranty on this product. Please register your product with Sonnet. Sonnet provides technical support by telephone at 1-949-472-2772. You may return this product in unopened packaging for full credit minus shipping to We Love Macs within 14 days of delivery. We will charge a 30% testing and repackaging fee if the package is open. We will charge for any missing or damaged documentation, accessories or packaging. If Sonnet is unable to solve any compatibility issues a repackaging fee may still apply.