- 4 External eSATA 3Gb/s SATA II Ports
- Port Multiplier aware - supports up to 20 disk drives*
- PCI-X SATA host adapter card for high-performance applications for high-performance
software applications
- 20% to 80% faster than other SATA cards
- Supports Mac OSX and Windows XP RAID
- Plug and Play
- Backward compatible with SATA I drives
- Compatible with AJA, BMD and Matrox video capture cards
- Manufacturers 3-year warranty
Designed for video editing, this PCI-X SATA II host adapter can easily handle
multiple streams of a variety video formats such as 10 bit uncompressed HD, 8
bit uncompressed HD, DVCPro HD, 8 bit SD, 10 bit SD and HDV!
Compatible with Apple's Power
Mac G5 (late 2004), Power
Mac G5 (early 2005), G4 and Windows PCs equipped with PCI-X, or PCI slots, the
CalDigit FASTA-4x features high speed SATA 3G connection at 3Gb/s bandwidth and allows you to connect
up to 4 external SATA devices. With the Port Multiplier compatibility, the
FASTA-4x can support up to 20 hard drives!
*Support for 20 drives requires the use of drive
enclosures employing SATA port multipliers. This card is included with the CalDigit
S2VR HD High Performance 5 Drive RAID (or build you own with the Sonnet's
Fusion 500P Port Multiplier Enclosure
or this SATA Port Multiplier
Enclosure, 5-Bay with LCDs). When using an enclosure without a port multiplier (such as
the Sonnet Fusion 400
4-Bay RAID
Enclosure), the card will support up to 4 drives.
Not all SATA cards are built the same
"Peak Performance" is not an accurate gauge of performance for video editing and
other applications with large file sizes. What matters most is the
sustained throughput.
In tests using a Power Mac G5 and 5 SATA II hard drives striped (RAID 0) in a port
multiplier enclosure, the FASTA-4x produced sustained reads of 233MB/s with writes of
205MB/s!
With the CalDigit FASTA-4x PCI-X SATA Host Controller, you have the potential to actually use the greatest speeds and
highest sustained throughput available with SATA II 3Gb/s interface
drives. Supporting high capacity and high sustained data transfer rates,
the FASTA-4x is ideal for setting up video and photo editing "scratch disks", huge photo/MP3/movie libraries and small to medium business file servers.
Includes:
- CalDigit FASTA-4x PCI-X Host Adapter
- User's Guide
System Requirements:
- Windows PCs:
- Pentium III 700Mhz or faster desktop computer
- 128 MB RAM or more
- Available PCI-X slot or 32/64 bit PCI slot (PCI-X slot required for maximum performance)
- Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000, Vista
- Macs:
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