FIRMTEK SERITEK SERIAL ATA TWO PORT PCI EXPRESS CARD (PCIE) MAC/ PC

The SeriTek/2SE2-E is a Serial ATA host adapter fully compatible with the new PCI Express bus architecture found in Apple's latest Dual-Core G5 Macintosh and Mac Pro computers. Offering two external SATA II ports at up to 3 gigabits per second, the card enables individual drives or RAID arrays to be fully utilized as high-performance storage on Dual-Core G5 and Mac Pro systems. With FirmTek's established hot-swap compatibility, users can easily move these drives or volumes from one system to another, providing maximum flexibility and security.

Apple's use of PCI Express in the new Dual-Core G5 and Mac Pro computers has opened a new era of performance for peripheral devices and expansion cards. Unlike previous standards, PCI Express gives each device dedicated bandwidth and access to the system controller. Under this design standard, cards and slots are defined by the number of data lanes included; usually one, four, eight or sixteen, each supporting up to 250 Mbps. The new G5s include a 16 lane slot intended for a graphics, as well as two with four lanes and one with eight. Cards must be specially designed to work with this new standard.

As a PCI Express card, the SeriTek/2SE2-E is solely intended for use with the new Dual-Core G5 and Mac Pro systems. This new card design is not compatible with older PCI-X or PCI slots. FirmTek offers a variety of outstanding solutions for other Macintosh platforms, please look for additional SeriTek solutions on this website.

Features:

• Two external ports with hot-swap capability
• Plug-and-Play ease of use, completely self-contained functionality, no driver installation necessary
• Boosts overall system performance with per-port data transfer rates of up to 300 MBytes/sec or 3.0 Gbits/sec
• Compatible with PCI Express (PCIe) equipped Dual-Core G5 and PC Windows/Linux computers
• Supports Mac OS X version 10.4.0 or later (10.4.6 or later is recommended), Windows 2000/XP/2003, Linux
• Provides performance and protection: native and third-party Mac OS X RAID support
• Ideal for multimedia-intensive applications: audio/video capture and editing, and graphics manipulation/publishing
• User-upgradeable firmware
• 48-bit LBA support for drive sizes larger than 137GB
• Bus master operation enhances multitasking during disk transfers and increases CPU efficiency: The CPU is free to handle other tasks during data transfers between the PCI-Express Bus and system memory
• Supports port multiplier connections using firmware 5.2.0.
• Data protection: Supports Mac OS X RAID, S.M.A.R.T.
• Reduced setting on storage devices (no master/slave) means easier installation and replacement