- 4 External eSATA 3Gb/s SATA II Ports
- Port Multiplier aware - supports up to 20 disk drives*
- Native PCI Express (PCIe) x8 8-lane host bus interface 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 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 latest Mac
Pro, Power Mac
G5 Dual-core (Late 2005) and any PC equipped with an x8 PCI-e slot, the
CalDigit FASTA-4e 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-4e 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 Mac Pro and 5 SATA II hard drives striped (RAID 0) in a port
multiplier enclosure, the FASTA-4e produced sustained reads of 228MB/s with writes of 211MB/s!
Using a 2GHz G5 Dual-core, with 4 SATA II drives in a RAID 0 direct connect
configuration (each drive on a separate port), the CalDigit FASTA-4e produced
sustained reads of 295MB/s with writes of 301MB/s!
With the CalDigit FASTA-4e 4 Port eSATA PCI Express card, 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-4e 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-4e PCI-e (PCI Express) Host Adapter
- User's Guide
System Requirements:
- Desktop computer with available x8 PCI Express (PCI-e) slot
- Windows XP SP2, Vista
- Mac
Pro, Power Mac G5 Dual-Core
with Mac OS X 10.4.x or later
Not compatible with G5s having PCI-X slots. If you are not sure what type of slots you have, check your manual.
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