The first external 4 port PCI-x SATA 3G host adapter card compatible with Power Mac G5 (Early 2005, Late 2004), G4 and PC. FASTA-4x features high speed SATA 3G connection at 3Gbps bandwidth and allows users to connect upto 4 external SATA devices to the computer. With the Port Multiplier functionality, FASTA-4e can support up to 20 hard drives (like CalDigit's S2VR 5-drive Hardware RAID).
With FASTA-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 (like SATA dumb box, Port Multiplier-aware enclosure or CalDigit S2VR Hardware RAID series).
Supporting high capacity and sustained data transfer, FASTA-4x is ideal for connecting to video and photo editing "scratch disks", huge photo/MP3/movie libraries and small to medium business file servers.
FASTA-4x will free up the FireWire bus of your G5 or G4 to allow video capture devices such as DV camcorders, VCR, AJA Io, LA, LD, etc that require the full bandwidth of FireWire and high speed access to external hard drives.
