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Sonnet ships Tempo Serial ATA PCI host adapter

updated 12:40 pm EST, Fri November 7, 2003

Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card


Sonnet Technologies is now shipping its , a new addition to its Sonnet Tempo line of PCI host adapter products. It allows Macintosh owners to take advantage of the market's latest offerings in Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) storage technologies offering data transfer rates of up to 150MBytes/sec or 1.5Gbits/sec. The Tempo Serial ATA host adapters feature fully self-contained Macintosh booting functionality, and supports Mac OS 8.6/9/X (Mac OS X 10.2 and later). The are compatible with PCI-based Power Macs and Clones. It is now shipping for $100.


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    Thanks 4 times

    Thanks for telling us 4 times in a row! ;-)

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    SATA

    All your SATA Kart are belong to us!

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    Thanks 2 times

    Thanks for telling us twice in a row. I see 2 not 4. Maybe that's a new trend. Two of the same headline. A comment free one and one you can make comments on.

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    see firm tek...rip off?

    I've seen the SeriTek/1S2 S for $69.

    Worse, PC variants of the same technology are around $30.

    What is so hard about taking a PCI standard slot,into which you add SATA standard card and drives? Shouldn't this just work with minimal fanfare? One would think that minimal if any driver would be needed.

    A small premium would be fair. I thought the SeriTek/1S2 S was expensive, but then laughed when I saw them @ $69 and the other older ATA (parallel) cards for mac around $100.

    Seems like a rip off when looking at what appear to be the identical cards selling for 1/2 to 1/3 for Win-tel machines....

    Well perhaps this huge profit margin will entice some other tech vendor(s) to jump in?

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    marketshare

    its called marketshare dear, if they think that they will only be able to sell X amount, then the costs must be more for one type of platform VS another platform where they can sell 80-90 times more...

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    ?

    Is SATA the succesor to ATA 133?

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    SMART Monitoring

    Can anyone comment on whether the drives connected to these cards show up as SCSI drives like they do on many of the other PCI ATA Host Adpater cards? I like to use smart monitoring of the drives and find none of the apps I have (be it DiskWarrior, SmartPanel, etc) recognized the drives I had connected to my computers PCI ATA card.

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