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Serial ATA PC Card for Notebook Computers

The SeriTek/1SM2 PC Card is a Type II 32-bit Cardbus compatible host adapter which brings superior Serial ATA 1.5Gbps storage transfer performance to notebook computers. The SeriTek/1SM2 shares many advanced features with FirmTek's popular line of SeriTek host adapters such as best-in-class performance, the ability to hot-swap hard disk drives without having to power down the notebook (even drives which are configured as part of a RAID array), ease-of-use comparable to USB and FireWire, and the incorporation of FirmTek's expertise in providing quality products with extreme compatibility and reliability.

Key Features and Benefits

• Supports two 3.5" SATA hard disk drives
• Enables effortless transport of high-capacity and high-performance Serial ATA hard drives
• Supports Macintosh RAID configurations or any operating system with JBOD
• Disk activity LEDs for each hard drive
• Hot-swappable flexibility in switching drives
• Compatible with FirmTek's full line of hard drive enclosures
• Allows exchanging of Serial ATA hard drives between multiple desktop and notebook computers
• Designed as a native Serial ATA solution; no Parallel ATA/USB/Firewire to Serial ATA bridge chips that might impact performance and reliability
• Features new eSATA external connectors which offer maximum insertion/removal dependability
• Platform independent; compatible with G4+ Macintosh and PC notebooks with PC Card 32-bit Cardbus II slots
• Supports Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux
• Works with original style shielded SATA-I or the latest eSATA enclosure ports (original style shielded SATA-I to eSATA data cables available separately)

Package Contents

• SeriTek/1SM2 32-bit Cardbus PC Card with two external SATA connectors
• CD-ROM with user manual and drivers