4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus (4x) PCI-Express SATA II 3Gb/s Professional Host Adapter

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 Plus will support 6Gb/s in the near future.

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. Reglardless if you are a audio or video editor working with FinalCut Pro or ProTools on a Mac Pro, G5 Dual-core or PC workstation, this card is designed for you. the 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus (4x) 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, HDV, etc.

The 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus (4x) also offers the best ROI on the market for this performance based product. There is nothing faster for the value on the market.

Key Features

Supports 4-lane, 10Gb/s PCI Express Bandwidth

Provides 4 external port eSATA2 Channels

Utilizes Silicon Image Si3132 Chip-set

Supports FIS-based switching with Port Multipliers

Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0a and Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a spec revision 1.1

Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0 Gbps

Supports Serial ATA II Port Multiplier 1.0 Specifications revision 1.1

Incorporated high-performance Heatsink to ensure reliable operations and long life.

Supports First-party DMA commands for Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

Supports Legacy Command Queuing (LCQ)

Co-resides with Motherboard IDE and SATA devices

Staggered Spin-up Control

Connect up to 20 SATA hard drives

Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and RAID 5 (over Port Multipliers)

Compatible with a variety of capture cards: AJA, BMD, Matrox and others

Supports Windows 2000, XP, XP Pro, Server, Vista and MacOSX 10.4.x

PCI Express (PCIe) 4-lane host bus interface for high-performance apps, including Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Apeture, Photoshop, Lightroom, iMovie, iPhoto, ProTools, Games and much more.