



The 4-Port PCIe utilizes the Silicon Image 3132 chipset and is compatible with 4x, 8x and 16x PCIe slots. This 4-Port PCIe host adapter is designed for large data storage needs, as well as digital audio, digital video and graphic professionals. For video professionals this SATAStar Plus adapter supports 10-bit uncompressed HD, 8-bit uncompressed HD, DV, HDV, DVPRO HD, 8-bit and 10-bit SD video workflow. Sustainable transfer rate is the gauge and tests show throughputs with 4 drives OS stripped utilizing AJA KONA Systems Test exceeding 295Mb/s reads and 301Mb/s writes sustained and even faster with larger number of drives, according to the folks at NitroAV.
The 4-Port NitroAV SATAStar Plus eSATA II 3Gb/s Professional PCIe Host Adapter costs $129.95. It supports multiple RAID levels as well as port multipliers.



