6-Port SATAStar Series (External) SATA Professional PCI Host Adapter

Fueling Your Digital World!

The 6-Port 'SATAStar Series' External Serial-ATA PCI Host Adapter provides an easy and affordable way for Macintosh & Windows/Linux users to add inexpensive, high-speed storage and devices. With four external shielded eSATA ports, each offering 1.5Gbits/sec performance, the SATAStar 6-Port provides the high bandwidth to meet the needs of performance-hungry applications. SATAStar products are the next -generation of storage interconnect, designed to replace parallel ATA technology. SATA is the proactive evolution of the ATA interface from a parallel bus to a serial bus architecture. This architecture overcomes the electrical constraints that are increasing the difficulty of continued speed enhancements for the classic parallel ATA bus.

Give your computer the boost it needs to speed through all kinds of digital video, digital audio, graphic files or just fast attached storage for your server or backup needs. This is the only card on the market that give you what other manufacturer require from two cards - external and internal ports. Nothing is as flexible and though only 4 ports work simultaneously together you can decide which ones you need to use – any combination of internal or external . SATAStar offers fantastic performance from individual drives, but grouping up to four Serial ATA hard drives in a RAID 0 (striped) array reveals the true backbone of this product which is exceptional speed.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Macintosh & Windows/Linux versions are different. Do not forget to specify correctly as Macintosh version will not work in a Windows operating system or vise-versa.