G-Technology EC-RS

The EC2 is an eSATA card capable of delivering higher bandwidth than FireWire can, up to 125MB/s on each of it's eSATA connections. It's a 3Gbps/port SATA II card which uses a PCIe slot in your computer.

Using eSATA, copy speeds will increase significantly when moving large amounts of data from one drive to another. Typically, a GT 050Q can transfer around 70MB/s when connected via FireWire 800. If connected to a EC2 card, speeds of over 110MB/s are easily attainable using the same drive.

The EC2-2 ships with a 1-meter eSATA cable.

The EC2 supports all Serial ATA II features, including 3.0 Gbps SATA II transfer speeds, Native Command Queuing, port multipliers with FIS-based switching, programmable output signal swing strengths for longer external cables or extended backplanes, hot plugging, enclosure management and ATAPI device support.

• External Interface
• Four 3Gb/sec eSATA external ports
• Bus Interface
• One-lane PCI Express
• Chipset
• Silicon Image SiI3132
• Sustained transfer rate
• 125MB/s per eSATA port

Compatible Operating Systems
• Mac OS 10.4.x and 10.5.x
• Snow Leopard not yet compatible
• Microsoft XP SP2, Vista
• Modern Unix-based, Linux, or BSD