IOGEAR releases new SATA products
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 3, 2007 at 1:43pm
IOGEAR has released a Serial ATA (SATA) and External SATA (eSATA) family, including PCI and PCI-Express card adapters, enclosures and cables. The company’s new product line facilitates data transfers at speeds up to 3 Gbps—six times quicker than USB 2.0, according to Miranda Su of IOGEAR.
IOGEAR’s new eSATA family includes the RAID5 eSATA 3 Gbps External 2-port PCI-Express Card (US$46.99). Compatible with the PCI-Express interface and effectively quadrupling the amount of available computing bandwidth over traditional PCI, the product adds two second-generation eSATA ports to desktop computers. It facilitates data transfer rates at 3Gbps and provides connectivity to external devices such as hard, CD and DVD drives.
By supporting RAID 5, 0, 1 and 10 configurations, users can increase their computer operating performance and automatically back-up their data. Offering a similar function, IOGEAR’s RAID5 eSATA 1.5 Gbps External 4-port PCI Card ($69.99) adds four first-generation eSATA ports to desktop computers, enabling data transfers at 1.5 Gbps and adding RAID 5, 0, 1 and 10 capabilities.
IOGEAR’s SATA family consists of the eSATA 1.5 Gbps 1Internal + 1External Low-Profile PCI Card ($37.99), eSATA 3 Gbps 1-Internal and 1-External Port Low-Profile PCI Express Host Card ($46.99) and SATA 3 Gbps Internal 2 Port Low-Profile PCI-Express Card ($46.99), enabling users to support mobile storage accessories and internal SATA devices, such as CD-ROMs, CD-RWs and DVD-ROMs.
Rounding out the product line, IOGEAR also now offers the 2.5-inch eSATA 3 Gbps/USB 2.0 Combo ION Drive Enclosure ($39.95) to convert internal SATA disk drives into external USB 2.0 or eSATA hard drives, allowing users to save data from older computers and laptops onto new machines, as well as bring it with them when on-the-go. Finally, IOGEAR now provides a variety of SATA and eSATA cables, supporting speeds between 1.5-3 Gbps and ranging in length from 1-2 meters.
All of IOGEAR’s SATA and eSATA products are Mac compatible.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
