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With Sonnet Technologies' Tempo SATA E4P, 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 500P, 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 15 Terabytes (15,000 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.

PCI Express x4 Bus Type

Native PCI Express (PCIe) x4 host bus interface for high-performance applications

FIS-based Port Multiplier-aware to support up to 20 disks drives

Four eSATA External Connectors

Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) support for compatibility with all SATA drives

Up to 20 Drives Supported

Up to 300 MB per second per port Data transfer Rate

Supported Serial ATA I & II Drive Types

FIS-based switching controller

True plug and play, no device Drivers to install

Spread Spectrum Clocking for compatibility with all SATA drives and lowers EMI emissions

Bus Mastering frees CPU from data I/O handling

48-Bit LBA support for drives larger than 137 GB

Firmware: Upgradeability Flash-ROM Upgradeable to latest firmware version

Operating system Requirements: Mac OS X Version 10.2 or later, Windows XP SP2

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