External eSATA adpater for G5 Power Macs
updated 08:15 am EDT, Mon June 12, 2006
External eSATA adpater
MaxUpgrades today announced the availability of its MaxExpress, a two-port External eSATA PCI-Express Host Adapter for PCI Express-based G5 Power Macs. The company says that each eSATA Port is capable of transferring 3Gb/s and supports sustained data rates up to 65MB/sec per channel. "The MaxUpgrades MaxExpress eSATA PCI-Express adapter is particularly well-suited for users who need two or four independent external SATA Data Channels -- to attain 125+ MB/sec or 250+ MB/sec sustained data transfer rates for most demanding application such as DV, HDV, DVCPRO HD, 8-bit and 10-bit uncompressed video editing," the company said. The MaxExpress eSATA Adapter supports RAID 0/1 and is compatible with Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger.” It is available now for $50. MaxUpgrades also offers MaxExpress with two internal SATA II ports that allows user to add two or four SATA II drives RAID internally in G5 Power Macintosh (PCI Express).
