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FirmTek announces PCI-X SATA Host Adapter

updated 04:15 pm EDT, Tue June 21, 2005

 

PCI-X SATA Adapter


announced today its newest Serial ATA host adapter: the four-port SeriTek/1VE2+2 featuring external and internal ports. This solution joins FirmTek's line of Serial ATA solutions, which already includes Serial ATA adapters for the Macintosh as well as the award-winning SeriTek/1EN2 external enclosure. The SeriTek/1VE2+2 features a 133MHz PCI-X interface. It offers direct booting from any attached hard drive or volume, hot-swap capability, support for native Mac OS X RAID 0/1 (mirroring or striping), and it works with Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X on any PCI bus-based Mac intended to run those systems.

The adapter offers four Serial ATA ports; two for internal drives and two for external. These ports are independently controlled to maximize performance at all times. The two external ports are fully shielded and
support hot-swapping of drives at any time.

"This innovation allows for the quick connection of storage to virtually any PCI-based Macintosh for any number of applications, and the hot-swap feature means that multiple users or applications can share the same machine without rebooting between projects." Even a fully operational RAID volume can be unmounted, disconnected, and replaced with another volume without powering the Macintosh down.

SeriTek/1VE2+2 Key Features and Benefits:

  • Four independently controlled Serial ATA ports; 2 internal and 2
    external
  • Exclusive hot-swap capability of stand-alone drives and entire RAID
    volumes; add and remove drives without shutting down the computer
  • Latest 133MHz PCI-X interface technology
  • Compatible with all PCI-based Power Macintosh computers; deliver top
    performance on "Sawtooth" G4, and all G5 computers
  • Supports direct booting from any attached drive
  • Boosts overall system performance with data transfer rates of up to
    150MBytes/sec or 1.5Gbits/sec per port
  • Supports Mac OS 8, OS 9, and OS X version 10.1.5 or later
  • Provides performance and protection: Supports native OS X RAID 0/1; OS
    9 RAID with third party software
  • User-upgradeable firmware for easy updates
  • Large LBA support for drives larger than 137GB
  • Includes two "designed for Macintosh" thin and flexible internal SATA
    data cables to allow easy, optimal placement of internal devices
  • Ideal for backing up large amounts of data - perfect for
    multimedia-intensive applications: audio/video capture and editing,
    graphics manipulation and high-end digital publishing

    The SeriTek/1VE2+2 Serial ATA host adapter is $140.


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