4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus (4x) PCI-Express SATA II 3Gb/s Professional Host Adapter (MacPro, PowerMAC G5 Dual-Core, Windows and Linux) - (4x eSATA External - Si3132)

The latest high performance external 4 port PCIe SATA 3Gbps host adapter card compatible with Apple's latest Mac Pro, Power Mac G5 and any PC equipped with PCI-e slot . The 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus (4x) features high speed SATA 3Gb/s connection at 3 Gb/s bandwidth and allows you to connect up to 4 external SATA devices. With the Port Multiplier functionality and can support up to 20 hard drives. Serial ATA is a high-speed serial link replacement for the parallel ATA attachment of mass storage devices. The serial link employed in the 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus is a high-speed differential layer that utilizes gigabit technology and 8b/10b encoding. The current data rate is 1.5Gb/s (=150MB/s) and 3.0Gb/s and the 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Based on a radically ultra fast and native PCIe chip-set architecture SiI 3132, the 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus is a extremely fast PCI Express 4x host adapter and takes SATA performance and features to enterprise levels: massive data storage space, high performance data transfer rate RAID 0, or high availability RAID 1, RAID 5. Our 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus (4x) fills the need of applications such as servers, digital video, digital audio, storage library's, graphic professionals and workstations storage systems that require maximum performance from their storage assets. Utilizing a four lanes (4x) PCI Express interface and four (4) independent Serial ATA (eSATA) channels

 With the 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus (4x), you have the potential to actually use the greatest speeds and the best STR (Sustainable Transfer Rate) that are available with SATA 1.5Gb/s and 3Gb/s interfaces, when you begin to stack SATA drives together in RAID you will really see your data fly. Supporting high capacity and sustained data transfer, the 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus (4x), is also ideal for connecting to video and photo editing "scratch disks", huge photo/MP3/movie libraries and enhance your editing experience.