Tempo SATA X4P

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! 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 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 20 drives individually and hot-swap 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, 1.5 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s auto-negotiation
FIS-based Port Multiplier-aware to support up to 20 disk 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
Mac Compatibility
Power Mac G5 (with PCI slots or PCI-X slots)
Power Mac G4 (with PCI slots)
Xserve G4, G5 or Intel (with PCI or PCI-X slot)
Mac OS X(6) Version 10.5, 10.4, or 10.3
Mac OS X Server Version 10.5, 10.4, or 10.3
Windows Compatibility
PC (with PCI or PCI-X slots)
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP SP2

UPC and SKU#: 732311004438
MPN#: TSATAII-X4P