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Using the ATA 133 connectivity standard,
the Alchemy PCI card from Miglia guarantees high data transfer rates
at an affordable price.
Providing a bandwidth of 133 Megabytes/second on each of its two
channels, the Alchemy ATA card allows you to connect up to four
hard drives in your PowerMac (depending on available drive bays).
Users of PowerMacs G3 will see huge performance improvements over
the built-in IDE interface, when fast hard drives are attached to
the Alchemy ATA card.
The Alchemy ATA 133 supports drives larger than 137 GB (128 GB),
allowing you to use the new Maxtor 160 GB drives without any limitations.
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• 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500,
9600
• PowerMac G3 Beige
• PowerMac G3 Blue&White
• PowerMac G4
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PCI card with two ATA 133 connectors
You can connect any IDE drive
to the card.
133 MB/sec bandwidth on each of the two channels
File copies between drives
are blazing fast!
Recognised as a SCSI card by your system
This ensures that the card
does not require any drivers to work in any compatible system
Fully transparent for the system
You can initialise your drives with
any drive utility, including Apple's Drive Setup
Better price/performance ratio over
SCSI
Want to add storage space
to your older Mac? Think about the speed of the ATA standard
and the low cost of IDE drives compared to their SCSI counterparts
Supports drives larger than 137 GB (128GB)
Unlike with a standard ATA 66/100
interface, a drive larger than 137 GB will fully recognised
if connected to the Alchemy card
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Alchemy ATA 133 PCI card
• ATA 66/100/133 cable to connect two drives
• Hard drive support for desktop models
• "Y" Power Cable
• Installation Guide in English, French, German,
. Italian and Spanish
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You can connect up to four drives to the Alchemy
card. With 133 MB/sec bandwidth on each channel, your hard drives
will be able to achieve their highest transfer rates, even if they
are installed on the same channel.
The Alchemy ATA 133 PCI card ships with one ATA 133 cable to get
you running immediately.
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The Alchemy ATA 133 PCI offers full support for
drives larger than 137 GB (128 GB formatted) such as the new 160
GB drive from Maxtor.
If you connect such a drive to the internal ATA 66 interface of
your PowerMac G4, the drive will only be “seen” partially
by your system, and you will not have access to the full amount
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If you wish to increase the
security of your stored data, you can use the Alchemy ATA 133
PCI with software utilities like SoftRaid or Charismac
RAID to mirror two drives (Raid level 1). If one drive fails,
all your data will still be available on the other drive.
It is not recommended to use a software utility to create a Raid
level 0 setup with the Alchemy ATA 133 PCI, as performance gains
would be minimal. The Alchemy
ATA 133 RAID PCI has been specifically designed for Raid level
0 support and is a more appropriate solution.
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• PCI rev. 2.1 Card
• Two independent ATA 133 channels
• Supports two drives per channel
• Unit weight: 0.5 KG
• Supports Deep Sleep mode in PowerMacs G4 (OS 9 only, OS X
to be announced)
• CE and FCC approved
• 2 years warranty
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