Sonnet Technologies Tempo SATA E4P Universal PCIe 4x+ Controller
When it comes to data storage capabilities, which do you prefer, raw storage capacity or scorching performance? With Sonnet's Tempo™ SATA E4P, you get the best of both worlds! This card offer 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 20 Terabytes (20,000 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. (3) You can even work with a combination of RAID sets and individual drives, your choices aren't limited. When your storage needs have outgrown standard solutions, get a Tempo SATA E4P it'll give you room to grow and blazing performance for the most demanding applications.
Key Features
- Affordable solution for adding four eSATA ports to your computer
- SATA II compliant, 1.5 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s auto-negotiation
- FIS-based Port Multiplier-aware to support up to 20 disk drives
- Native PCI Express (PCIe) x4 host bus interface for high-performance applications
- Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) support for compatibility with all SATA drives
- Hot-swap drive support
