Sonnet upgrades high-performance SATA PCI controllers

Sonnet Technologies today released upgraded Tempo-X eSATA line of high-performance Serial ATA (SATA) host controllers. The company has added support for 3 Gigabit SATA II drives and Windows XP. The Tempo-X eSATA 4+4 ($200) features 4 internal plus 4 external ports, while the Tempo-X eSATA 8 ($300) features 8 external ports; both offer flexibility in connecting additional data storage capacity in both Mac and Windows environments. These host controllers’ ports are independently capable of transferring data at up to 300MB/s, and can achieve much higher transfer rates when connected drives are grouped in a striped RAID array. Tempo-X eSATA cards also utilize the PCI-X interface to take advantage of its enhanced performance capability, while retaining backward compatibility with standard PCI slots. They are compatible with Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

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