4-Port NitroAV SATAStar PCI-Express (x8) SATA II 3Gb/s Professional Host Adapter (MacPro, PowerMAC G5, Windows and Linux) - (4x eSATA External - Si3124)
This high performance external 4 port PCI-e SATA 3Gbps host adapter card is compatible with Apple's latest Mac Pro, Power Mac G5 and any PC equipped with PCIe slot . The 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar (x8) features high speed SATA 3Gb/s connection at 3 Gb/s bandwidth and allows you to connect up to 4 external SATA devices. With the port multiplier functionality and can support up to 20 hard drives.
Based on a radically dual chip set architecture SiI 3124A (a succesor of SiI 3124) and Intel bridge, the 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar is a extremely fast PCI Express 8x host adapter and takes SATA performance and features to enterprise levels: massive data storage space, high performance data transfer rate RAID 0, or high availability RAID 1, RAID 5. Our 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar (x8) fills the need of applications such as servers, digital video, digital audio, storage library's, graphic professionals and workstations storage systems that require maximum performance from their storage assets. Utilizing a eight lanes (x8) PCI Express interface and four (4) independent Serial ATA (eSATA) channels
With the 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar (x8), you have the potential to actually use the greatest speeds and the best STR (Sustainable Transfer Rate) that are available with SATA 1.5Gb/s and 3Gb/s interfaces, when you begin to stack SATA drives together in RAID you will really see your data fly. Supporting high capacity and sustained data transfer, the 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar (x8), is also ideal for connecting to video and photo editing "scratch disks", huge photo/MP3/movie libraries and enhance your editing experience. Reglardless if you are a audio or video editor working with FinalCut Pro or ProTools on a Mac Pro, G5 Dual-core or PC workstation, this card is designed for you. the 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar (8x) can easily handle multiple streams of a variety video formats.
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