A company callled FirmTek has announced that it is now shipping a new four-port eSATA host adapter that is comptible with the latest Apple Snow Leopard OS. The device works with 32-bit and 64-bit mode in the operating system and the device is backward compatible with older evrsions of Mac OS X.
The adapter is like the Mac Pro users, the storage capacity to add thheir machgines with supprot for RAID 0 with the performance as high as 540MB sec directed. The device promises up to 250MB sec per channel of poer. The host adpter is in a 5-bay port multiplier enclsure SeriTek 5PM be incvluded in order to connect up to 20 drivs.
The host adapter is compatible with all Mac Pro models, and the PowerMac G5-compatible in late 2005. The device requires a PCI Express slot with 4x bandwidth. Supported drves include 1.5Gb sec SATA I and SATA II 3 Gb s. The host adapter is now availble.