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Adds 2 eSATA ports to PCI Express equipped Macs and PCs
The Sonnet Tempo SATA E2P features two external 300 MB/s SATA (eSATA) ports and supports SATA drive enclosures with port multipliers (like Sonnet’s Fusion 500P), which enable the use of up to 10 disk drives. Perfect for connecting mass storage, this card offers an affordable way to add external SATA connections. Tempo SATA E2P may be installed in any PCI Express slot, and is RoHS compliant.
Use this card to connect up to two external eSATA hard drives to your
PCI Express equipped computer or through its support of port multipliers on the
eSATA port—the two ports can handle up to ten hard drives*! Used with high-performance drive enclosures like
the Sonnet
Fusion 500P or this 5-Bay Port Multiplier
SATA Enclosure, this card can manage the data flow of up to five drives in one enclosure through a single cable. Using
high capacity 2TB drives, you can connect an astounding 20 Terabytes (20,000 Gigabytes!) of striped RAID storage!
Features:
- Two eSATA ports
- 3 Gb/s per port SATA II controller
- FIS-based port multiplier-aware to support up to 10 hard disk drives*
- Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) support for compatibility with all SATA hard drives
- Hot-swap drive support
- Compatible with Mac Pro, Xserve and Windows PCs equipped with PCIe
slots
*Support for 10 drives requires the use of drive
enclosures employing port multipliers like the Sonnet
Fusion 500P or this 5-Bay Port Multiplier
SATA Enclosure.
System Requirements:
- Desktop computer with available PCI Express (PCI-e) slot
- Windows XP SP2, Vista
- Mac
Pro
with Mac OS X 10.4.x or later
Not compatible with G5s
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