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| FASTA-4e Add 4 high-speed external eSATA ports to any Power Mac G5 and Mac Pro equipped with PCI-Express expansion slots.
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 CATEGORY: | Harddrive Controllers |  | PARTNUMBER: | CLDN5250003 |
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| MANUFACTURER: | CalDigit | PLATFORM(S): |  Mac &  Win | |
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| ON THE WEB: | www.caldigit.com | AVAILABILITY: | Usually ships in 2-business days or less. | |
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| FASTA-4e Specifications |
| The first external 4 port PCI-e SATA 3G host adapter card compatible with Apple's latest Mac Pro, Power Mac G5(Late 2005) and any PC equipped with PCI-e slot . FASTA-4e features high speed SATA 3G connection at 3 Gbps bandwidth and allows you to connect upto 4 external SATA devices. With the Port Multiplier functionality, FASTA-4e can support up to 20 hard drives (like CalDigit's S2VR 5-drive Hardware RAID). With FASTA-4e, 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-4e is ideal for connecting to video and photo editing "scratch disks", huge photo/MP3/movie libraries and small to medium business file servers. Features:
Sustained Transfer for Video Editing Not all SATA cards built the same. The "Peak Performance" is not the gauge of video editing; STR (Sustainable Transfer Rate) is the gauge. The following test results show FASTA-4e's Outstanding Performance and Sustainable Transfer Rate optimized for a variety of high bandwidth applications, including High Definition (HD) video editing and capture:
From above results, FASTA-4e is 20% to 80% faster than any other SATA cards and is the only PCI-e SATA card designed for Video Editing. It supports 10 bit uncompressed HD, 8 bit uncompressed HD, DV, HDV, DVCPRO HD, 8-bit and 10-bit SD video, etc. workflows. Right Gear to Digital Darkroom If you're a photographer, loading or searching through thousands of pictures via USB or FireWire interface may not be practical or efficient. CalDigit’s FASTA-4e is based on 8-lane PCI Express 3Gbps SATA architecture, which is an ideal and easier way for storing photo libraries. Comparing to the 2-drive FireWire800 RAID solution at 75MB/s, FASTA-4e can reach 148MB/s when connecting to a 2-drive SATA RAID storage. (Like CalDigit's S2VR 2-drive Hardware RAID). By populating 20 SATA drives in one FASTA-4e, you can reach 900MB/s. This is more cost- and time-effective solution for digital image processing. Enhance Your Editing Experience No More Costly Fibre Channel or SCSI Upgrade your Mac Pro and G5 Dual-core **450MBps was tested under Mac OSX 10.4 with S2VR Pro 2.5TB Why choose SATA HBA for video editing? For video professionals, FASTA-4e will free up the FireWire bus of your Mac Pro and G5 to allow video capture devices such as DV camcorders, VCR, AJA Io, LA, LD, etc. that requires the full bandwidth of FireWire and high speed access to external hard drives. What is SATA 3G? Fibre Channel VS. SATA 3G? What is FASTA? Port Multipiler Compatible with Mac OS 10.4, Windows 2000, XP, Vista Requires one PCI-Express slot. |
| FASTA-4e Frequently-Asked Questions |
1. HOW DO I TERMINATE A SCSI BUS? When a SCSI controller issues a command to one of the devices on the SCSI bus, it does not expect to have that command come back to it. Instead, it expects to hear just the response from the drive it issued a command to. Properly terminating the SCSI bus prevents signal reflection on the cables, essentially absorbing commands when they reach the end of the cable. On an improperly terminated SCSI bus, it is common to have the controller software issue error messages caused by unexpected activities on the bus or to experience complete failure of the bus. The "golden" rule for SCSI termination is that each end of a SCSI bus must be terminated and no terminator can exist anywhere in between these ends. When you add or remove drives from a SCSI bus, you must comply with this rule. Each SCSI bus starts with a controller. The controller is terminated. Even if there are no drives attached to it, the controller can still issue commands to search for drives without having those commands reflect. Typically, you will add at least one SCSI drive to the bus. You will do so by connecting a ribbon cable from the controller to the drive. Note that one end of the ribbon must plug into the controller and the other end must plug into the drive. In this case, the drive must also be terminated so that both ends of the bus are terminated according to the rule! If you then add additional drives, you can install the drives anywhere along the cable, providing only the drive on the end is terminated. The termination rule gets complicated when you try to add both internal and external SCSI drives to a system. Since the rule states that the ends of the SCSI bus must be terminated, obviously the drive connected to the end of the internal cable must be terminated and the drive connected to the end of the external cable must be terminated. Unfortunately, this leaves the controller somewhere in the middle of the bus and it too is terminated. If the controller does not provide automatic termination enable/disable, you must manually disable termination on the SCSI controller. Note that termination violations might sometimes appear to work. However, it is better to be safe than sorry. Follow the rule! Terminating a drive usually involves installing or removing a jumper on the drive. Check your drive manual for this jumper setting. If the drive does not provide built-in termination, you can purchase a stand-alone terminator. Terminators are available to plug into most SCSI connectors and come in a whole host of shapes and sizes so get the one designed for your application. Note that most new SCSI drives do not provide a built-in terminator and termination is provide by a separate terminator plugged into the end of the SCSI cable.
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