Sonnet - Tempo SATA X4i: Serial ATA PCI-X Host Adapter Card

You'll Feel SATAsfied Inside!
Do your storage needs outweigh what your Power Mac® G5 can support? Stuff it—with drives, that is! Sonnet's Tempo™ SATA X4i 4-port Serial ATA Host Controller for PCI-X enables you to connect up to 4 additional internal drives for the perfect balance of flexible expandability and superior performance. This card is an ideal companion to our G5 Jive™ internal drive mount system for Power Mac G5 computers—along with your SATA drives, this combination is the most cost effective way for adding up to 4 Terabytes of high-performance capacity to your G5.

Do you need more speed? Tempo SATA X4i offers 3 Gb/s per port data transfer support and gives you performance to burn! You'll get great performance from individual drives, but grouping up to four Serial ATA hard drives in a RAID 0 (striped) array will provide astonishing sustained read/write performance numbers enough to capture and process High Definition video! Want more security? Set up your drives in a RAID 0 (mirrored) or RAID 10 (striped/mirrored) set for up to 2 Terabyte of data redundancy. When you need more flexibility and performance than offered by standard solutions, get a Tempo SATA X4i—it'll give you room to grow and blazing performance for the most demanding applications.

Key Benefits

Affordable solution for adding four internal SATA ports to your computer

3 Gb/s per port SATA II controller

PCI-X host bus interface for high-performance applications

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

Supports up to 4 drives⁽¹⁾

Mac Compatibility

Power Mac G4

Power Mac G5 (with PCI⁽²⁾ or PCI-X slots)

Xserve G5

Mac OS® X Version 10.5⁽⁵⁾, 10.4, or 10.3

Windows Compatibility

PC (with PCI⁽²⁾ or PCI-X slots)

Windows Vista

Windows XP SP2

Technical Specifications

Part No.	TSATAII-X4i
Hardware
Warranty	1-year limited warranty
RoHS Compliant	Yes
Bus Interface	PCI-X, 64-bit 133MHz; 32-bit PCI bus 2.2 Compliant, works in any PCI or PCI-X slot
Internal Connectors	Four SATA
Drives Supported	Up to 4⁽¹⁾
Data Transfer Rate	Up to 300 MB per second per port
ATAPI Support	No
Drive Type Supported	Serial ATA I & II; Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 (parallel)⁽³⁾
Firmware	Flash-ROM upgradeable to latest firmware version
Package Contents	Tempo SATA X4i host adapter card, quick start guide, Software CD
Advanced Features True plug-and-play; no drivers to install⁽⁴⁾ Spread Spectrum Clocking for compatibility with all SATA drivers and lower EMI emissions Bus Mastering frees CPU from data I/O handling 48-bit LBA support for drives larger than 137 GB

Specifications subject to change without notice.

Tempo SATA X4i PCI-X card is an ideal companion to Sonnet G5 Jive internal drive mount system for Power Mac G5 computers.

Technical Notes:
⁽¹⁾ Western Digital manufactures Desktop edition (WD Caviar, Caviar SE, Caviar SE16, and Raptor X) hard drives and Enterprise (RAID) Edition (WD RE, RE2, and Raptor) hard drives. Each type of hard drive is designed to work specifically in either a desktop computer environment, or connected to a RAID controller (hardware or software-based). If you intend to configure Western Digital drives in a RAID set, Sonnet and WD recommend using only their Enterprise edition hard drives. For more information, see this Western Digital FAQ.

⁽²⁾Performance will be lower in PCI-only machines.

⁽³⁾Parallel disk drives are supported when using Sonnet's Tempo Bridge or similar Serial ATA-to-Parallel ATA adapter.

⁽⁴⁾Mac only; Windows requires the installaton of included drivers.

⁽⁵⁾Mac OS X Version 10.5 requires firmware Version 2.1.2 or greater