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Four Port External Serial ATA
PCI-X Host Adapter
The SeriTek/1eVE4 Host Adapter provides an easy and affordable way for Macintosh users to add inexpensive, high-speed storage. With four external shielded Serial ATA ports, each offering 1.5Gbits/sec performance, the SeriTek/1eVE4 provides the high bandwidth to meet the needs of performance-hungry applications. The SeriTek/1eVE4 is PCI-X compatible, permitting Power Mac G5 users to take advantage of the latest extended PCI technology while maintaining backward compatibility with older Power Macintosh systems.
Key Features and Benefits
- Four external ports with hot-swap capability; supports hot-swapping of independent and RAID volumes
- Plug-and-Play ease of use
- Completely self-contained booting functionality, no driver installation necessary
- Boosts overall system performance with per-port data transfer rates of up to 150MBytes/sec or 1.5Gbits/sec
- Supports Power Mac G5 PCI-X (Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended) bus
- Compatible with all PCI-based Power PC Macintosh computers
- Supports Mac OS 9, and OS X version 10.1.5 or later
- Provides performance and protection: Supports native OS X RAID 0/1; OS 9 RAID with 3rd party software
- User-upgradeable firmware
- 48-bit LBA support for drive sizes larger than 137GB
- Perfect for upgrading and expanding legacy and G5 Macintosh computers
- PCI-X 1.0a compliant 64-bit at 133/100/ 66MHz bus speeds
- Backward compatible with standard 32/64-bit PCI at 33MHz and 66MHz bus speeds
- Direct Port Access: Enhanced performance by allowing data transfer to all four drives simultaneously
- Bus master operation enhances multitasking during disk transfers and increases CPU efficiency: The CPU is free to handle other tasks during data transfers between the PCI Bus and system memory
- Data protection: Supports OS X RAID, OS 9 Software RAID (third party software), and other storage utilities
- Reduced setting on storage devices (no master/slave) means easier installation and replacement
- Ideal for a variety of Power Macintosh applications: Desktop publishing, Audio/Video storage and editing, photo/graphics storage and editing, servers, and gaming.
Package Contents
- SeriTek/1eVE4 PCI-X Serial ATA controller with four external SATA connectors
- User's manual
Serial ATA Hard Drive Compatibility
Note: Early Hitachi Serial ATA hard drives are incompatible with the SeriTek/1eVE4 Host Adapter. This is due to a seldom-used Serial ATA feature called SSC, which is enabled on these hard drives. The SeriTek/1eVE4 does not support this feature. Newer model Hitachi Serial ATA hard drives should be compatible with SeriTek/1eVE4.
At this time, the following Hitachi Deskstar hard drives have the SSC feature disabled, and are compatible with the SeriTek/1eVE4 host adapter:
- Model 7K400 (400GB) – Part Numbers 0A30984 and 0A30985
- Model 7K250 (250GB) – Part Number 0A30340
- Model 7K250 (160GB) – Part Number 0A30339
- Model 7K250 (120GB) – Part Number 0A30338
- Model 7K250 (80GB) – Part Number 0A30337