Mobility adds PCI slots to PCIe Macs
updated 02:35 am EST, Wed March 8, 2006
PCI Expansion chassis
Mobility Electronics has announced a new Magma PCI Express to PCI Expansion Chassis. The Magma PCI Express to PCI Expansion System provides a cost-effective solution for expanding the capability of PCI Express based computers by adding PCI slots. "As computer manufacturers migrate to PCI Express, the number of available PCI slots has been reduced or completely eliminated. However, many companies have a substantial investment in configurations built around conventional PCI and PCI-X hardware." The new Magma expansion system provides an economical migration path to PCI Express based computers while providing a method to protect investments in PCI hardware. The new expansion chassis provides six PCI slots in Magma's standard 4U rack-mount enclosure. The host connection is through a 4 lane (x4) PCI Express host card. A pair of Infiniband cables connects the PCI Express host card to PCI expansion chassis. It is compatible with PCI Express based Windows, Mac OS X and Red Hat Linux computers and is available for $2,000.
