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Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA Dual Channel PCI Card (sup

$67.99

Manufacturer:	Sonnet
Mfr Part #:	TSATA
Part Number:	8/SONTSATA/n
Condition:	New
Warranty:	3 year, factory
Platform:	Mac
Availability:	Ships Today

Overview

Sonnet's Tempo Serial ATA PCI adapter card enables you to connect the latest Serial ATA (SATA) and parallel* hard drives to your older Macintosh computer. Take advantage of the higher data transfer rates and improved cabling performance that SATA offers. Watch your data fly at up to 1.5 Gbps without sacrificing integrity! Just install this card into your PCI slot and make the switch to Serial ATA. Now what could be easier?

Sonnet Technologies is the leader in Macintosh upgrade products. Our engineering experience enables us to provide Macintosh users with the most reliable products in the industry. Keep us in mind whenever you are planning to upgrade your Mac, Sonnet offers an ever-expanding array of upgrade solutions that will increase the performance and extend the life of your Macintosh system.

Easy installation
Compatible with most PCI Power Macintosh
48-bit LBA support for drives larger than 137GB
Supports OS X mirroring and striping
Compatible with Mac OS 8.0 through Mac OS X
Boots from any attached hard drive

Specs

-		Power Macintosh Series 4400, 6400, 6500, 7200, 7215, 7220, 7300, 7500, 7600, 8200, 8500, 8515, 8600, 9500, 9500/180MP, 9515, 9600, 9600/200MP
-		Macintosh Server G3, G4
-		Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one, Blue & White, Desktop, Minitower
-		Power Mac G4**
-		Power Mac G5
-		Performa Series 6400, 6410, 6420
-		Workgroup Server 7250, 7350, 8550, 9650
-		Daystar Genesis and Millennium Series
-		Mactell XB-Pro
-		Power Computing PowerBase Desktop and Tower, PowerCenter, PowerCenter Pro Desktop and Minitower, PowerCurve, PowerTower, PowerTower Pro, PowerWave
-		StarMax 3000, 3000 Minitower, 4000, 4000 Minitower, 5000, 5500
-		UMAX C500, C600, C600X, J700, S900

** All models except Cube.

Software
Operating System Requirements			Supports Mac OS 8.0 through 9.x, and Mac OS X, version 10.2 or later
Mac OS Bootability			Supported from any attached drive
Hardware
Compatible Models			Most PCI Macintosh computers (see list above)
General System Hardware			Compliant 32-bit PCI bus version 2.2
			Available hard drive or peripheral power connector
Bus Type			32 bit, 33/66MHz PCI
			Compliant 32-bit PCI bus version 2.2
Internal Connectors			2-port internal Serial ATA interface connectors support up to 2 hard drives
Drive Types Supported			Serial ATA hard drive
			Backward compatible with Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 (parallel) drives*
ATAPI Device Support			Yes*
Data Transfer Rate			Up to 150 Mbytes/second or 1.5 Gbits/second burst data transfer rate
Drive Modes Supported			Serial ATA
			Ultra DMA modes 6/5/4/3/2/1/0, PIO modes 4/3/2/1/0*
Advanced Data Features			Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0a specification
			Bus Mastering off-loads data I/O handling from CPU
			Complete 32-bit CRC error checking, for all bits transmitted (command, data and status), offers enhanced data protection for high-speed Serial ATA drives
			Dual independent data channels allows for separate device timings
			Automatically identifies and configures drive types*
			Automatically detects and supports devices utilizing many transfer modes including UltraDMA 6/5/4/3/2/1/0, PIO 4/3/2/1/0*
Cables Supported			7-pin SATA cable, either end of cable can be connected to the SATA hard drive or to the PCI host adapter
Warranty			3-year limited warranty
Power Requirements			5V +/- 5%
Environmental			Temperature: Operating: +5 C to +55 C Non-operating: -25 C to +10 C
			Relative humidity: Operating: 20% to 80% Non-operating: 15% to 90%
Firmware
Upgradeability			Flash-ROM upgradeable to latest firmware
Package Contents:
			Tempo Serial ATA 2-Port PCI Controller Card
			Quick Start Guide
			1 Serial ATA data interface cable
			Drive mounting screws



* IDE to Serial ATA conveter required for parallel ATA drives and ATAPI devices.

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Customer Review by: jkavguy at hot mail dot com on May 29th, 2009

My Quicksilver 2002 800Mhz was already upgraded to a Sonnet Encore Duet dual 1.6Ghz processor from Small Dog. Later I added an ATI 9600 Pro PC & Mac Video card. The only thing left to do with this old machine was to add faster SATA drives.

This card worked like a charm. I plugged a pair of SATA drives into it and booted from my Leopard disc. Disc utility saw the drives immediately and I was able to set up a RAID configuration with no firmware or drivers required. I then installed Leopard without incident. The RAID drives sped up my aging machine and I'll be good for a few more years!

Customer Review by: hyperchris at aol dot com on February 20th, 2004

This worked like a charm in my G4 (mirrored door) I wanted to add a mirrored pair to my G4 and was
surprised to find out the on-board IDE busses operate at different speeds. That's not good for
mirroring! So I decided to explore a SATA setup and found this card.

Snapped it in, mounted two SATA drives, cabled it up and turned the G4 back on. It booted on my old
Hard Disk into 10.2 just fine. I opened up the Apple Disk Utility and set the SATA drives to be a
mirrored pair and then formatted them as one HFS volume. I then booted on my Panther CD and told it
to reformat the pair HFS Journaled and clean-install 10.3 Once that was done it rebooted on my old
hard disk one last time and I changed the Startup Disk to the SATA mirrored pair and hit restart.

Voila. Booting on the new SATA mirrored pair without a hitch. And it is fast. I assume it is a
combination of the new OS and the new drives but it is kind of like getting a new machine !