Fueling Your Digital World is the heart of NitroAV.

Make sure your laptop stays on the edge of technology and speed. The 2-Port NitroAV SATAStar Series 32-Bit CardBus is the most powerful and flexible solution available to accommodate storage devices and peripherals with the new Serial-ATA interface. With data transfer speeds up to 150MBytes/sec (real-world observations: over 3.5X speed of USB 2.0 and much faster then Firewire800), SATA is quickly becoming the gold standard for high-speed data transfer. This card instantly adds two Serial ATA ports to your laptop computer, letting you connect cutting-edge SATA drives.

A professional and cost-effective way to add Serial ATA performance your laptop.

Mobile professionals: graphic, digital video and digital audio users will quickly see that the huge value in the increase speeds and throughputs. Serial ATA is a high-speed serial link replacement for the parallel ATA (IDE) attachment of mass storage devices. The serial link employed is a high-speed differential layer that utilizes Gigabit technology and 8b/10b encoding. The current data rate is 1.5Gb/s (=150MB/s).

The NitroAV SATA CardBus supports 2x eSATA ports with RAID 0 and 1** features, The built-in chipset provides 256-byte FIFOs, watchdog, 32-bit CardBus transfer features. NitroAV is the best choice for connecting Serial-ATA external devices to your portable computer.

Supports 3.5" SATA hard drives & Vanguard IIIS

Hot-swappable for flexibility in switching devices

32-Bit PCMCIA Type II CardBus

Two (2X) 'real-time' status activity LEDs

Two (2X) eSATA Ports 'I'.

Supports RAID 0 and 1 (thru OS software based)

Supports Serial ATA Rate up to 1.5Gb/s

Dual SATA channels w/ eSATA connectors

Compliant with Serial ATA 2.0 Phase 1

Supports Hard Drives Size over 137GB (Verified 500GB drives)

Supports Serial ATAPI Devices

Windows/Linux: downloadable drivers and Windows RAID GUI

MacOSX 10.2 or higher: downloadable drivers

Supports: MacOSX 10.2+ (see options below) or Windows ME, 2000, XP and current rev. Linux, etc..(check with operating system manufacturer for details)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Macintosh & Windows/Linux versions are different. Do not forget to specify correctly as Macintosh version will not work in a Windows operating system or vise-versa.

FirewireDirect does not offer troubleshooting support for LINUX driver and install support because of the huge complexity of various Linux builds & installs. Please utilize the 30Day product money back warranty if you are not happy or successful in your installed configuration.

DRIVERS: MacOSX, Windows 2000/XP, Windows XP/2003 Server 64-Bit, Linux & Driver Library (SiI 3215 Chip Set)

Note regarding linux - see \Tech Specs\

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