Alchemy ATA 133 RAID PCI

With its ATA 133 and Raid level 0 support, the Alchemy PCI card from Miglia guarantees an incredible increase in data transfer rates.
Providing a bandwidth of 133 Megabytes/second on each of its two channels, the Alchemy IDE card allows you to connect up to four hard drives in your PowerMac.
The Alchemy ATA 133 Raid PCI has built-in hardware support for disk striping, also called Raid level 0. Read and write from two hard drives simultaneously to increase I/O performance by a huge rate!
You can use the card in standard mode, with two independent drives or activate the raid mode to create a single volume with two drives.
The Alchemy ATA 133 supports drives larger than 137 GB (128 GB), which gives it yet another edge over standard ATA 66 or ATA 100 cards.

Compatible PowerMacs

• PowerMac G3 Beige
• PowerMac G3 Blue&White
• PowerMac G4

Compatible OS Versions

• Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x
• Mac OS X

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Hardware-based Raid level 0 ATA card
Simply insert the card into a free PCI slot, attach two hard drives to it and get an incredible performance boost. You can also use drives independently, without setting up a raid

Two separate 133 MB/sec channels
In normal mode (non-Raid), you can connect two hard drives to each of the channels for a total of up to four

Does not require any additional drivers

Bootable on every compatible system
You can install Mac OS 9.x or Mac OS X on a hard drive attached to the alchemy card!

Supports drives larger than 137 GB (128 GB formatted)
Unlike the built-in ATA interface in all recent PowerMacs, the Alchemy ATA 133 card allows you to use the full capacity of hard drives larger than 137 GB!

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1. Connect a drive to each of the two channels of the Alchemy ATA card. Your drives should preferably be of the same type and size

2. Activate the hardware raid support by setting the switch on the Alchemy card. Your two drives will be “seen” as a single drive by your system. Enjoy the performance!

• Alchemy ATA 133 RAID PCI card
• Two ATA 66/100/133 cables
• Installation Guide in English, French, German,
. Italian and Spanish

• PCI rev. 2.1 Card
• Two independent ATA 133 channels
• Hardware based Raid level 0 support
• Supports IDE, E-IDE, ATA 3, ATA 4, ATA 5 hard drives
• Unit weight: 0.5 KG
• CE and FCC approved
• 2 years warranty

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 of storage space.

Alchemy ATA 133 PCI

The standard version of the alchemy card is the ideal solution for fast and affordable data storage. Like the Raid version, it allows you to connect 2 ATA hard drives to each of the two channels, but without hardware RAID support.