6-Port NitroAV SATAStar Series (External) SATA Professional PCI Host Adapter (w/4x external eSATA 'I' and 2x internal SATA 'L' Connectors)

The 6-Port 'SATAStar Series' External Serial-ATA PCI Host Adapter provides an easy and affordable way for Macintosh & Windows/Linux users to add inexpensive, high-speed storage and devices. With four external shielded eSATA ports and two internal SATA ports, each offering 1.5Gbits/sec performance, the SATAStar 6-Port provides the high bandwidth to meet the needs of performance-hungry applications. SATAStar products are the next -generation of storage interconnect, designed to replace parallel ATA technology. SATA is the proactive evolution of the ATA interface from a parallel bus to a serial bus architecture. This architecture overcomes the electrical constraints that are increasing the difficulty of continued speed enhancements for the classic parallel ATA bus.

The new ‘SATAStar’ series 6-Port SATA PCI host adapter gives you the maximum ports available on one card, regardless if you need four external ports or two internal ports or any combination of. All other vendors give you the option of either four external ports or internal ports but the six port SATA card offers you all this in one card.

Give your computer the boost it needs to speed through all kinds of digital video, digital audio, graphic files or just fast attached storage for your server or backup needs. SATAStar offers fantastic performance from individual drives, but grouping up to four Serial ATA hard drives in a RAID 0 (striped) array reveals the true backbone of this product which is exceptional speed.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Macintosh & Windows/Linux versions are different. Do not forget to specify correctly as Macintosh version will not work in a Windows operating system or vise-versa.