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 Worked flawlessly, right out of the box February 12, 2010
David J. Fox (Austin, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was looking for a PCI SATA card to upgrade my older G4 mdd Mac from IDE to SATA and this Sonnet card did the trick perfectly. It comes with two SATA ports, cables, screws, etc. I installed it in an open PCI slot on my mac, attached two new SATA drives, and OS X saw everything the first time, no drivers needed. The Sonnet card showed up in system profiler just fine, and my two new SATA drives were staring at me from the desktop just as I expected. I used OS X's built-in software RAID feature to stripe the two new drives for faster performance, and everything has been rock solid since.
My only complaint would be that I wish Sonnet (and other Mac-centric expansion card vendors) would offer a PCI SATA card with onboard hardware RAID for G4's. I see inexpensive PCI RAID cards all over the place for older Windows machines, but trying to find the same for older Macs is an ordeal.
All in all, this card from Sonnet does exactly what it said it would do, and at a reasonable price. I recommend it.
SATA in a 2002 PM G4, can't beat it. November 17, 2009
M. Farrar (Rolla, MO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
$60 seemed a little high, but to be able to have SATA in a old PM G4, i think it's worth every penny. Card installed with out a problem, plugged new drive into it and booted computer. OS X came up and asked me what i would like to do with the new drive. Took about 10 seconds to format it and i was up and running. Very happy they included a molex to sata power adapter. Haven't had any problems yet. But i've only had it running for about 4 hours total.
***Update***
I have had absolutely no problems so far. Solid setup. I rarely put the computer to sleep.
will flawlessly upgrade your power mac g4 to internal SATA September 16, 2009
It's me (center of the universe)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i have had this card for 3 years in two machines. the first was a G4 dual 450 Mhz Gigabit Ethernet powermac and it pushed a single 500 GB Sata drive nicely as long as i had several 128 GB partitions on the desktop. It was a bit annoying, but manageable. Sonnet and their associates helped me set it up. The second machine this card has been in is a quicksilver 933 Mhz powermac that has native large drive support built in on the motherboard. It is pushing two 640 GB sata drives in a mirror RAID using Carbon Copy Cloner running 10.4 tiger. Each drive has a single huge partition and i managed to install everything without any tech support from anyone. I'm so happy with the results i'm looking into placing another card into this mac. Sonnet is expensive but their support is world class and you don't even need to be the original owner to receive this.
Works with Mac September 14, 2009
R. Fields
Does what it's suppose to do. Adds more SATA interfaces for the system and works like a charm. No issues.
Excellent Product! A must for any Mac user who still has IDE and looking for Sata. June 9, 2009
Brian R (Las Vegas, NV)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having purchased and installed at least 20 or more of these for various G4 macs, I can say that this is a must have for every user who wants to use SATA!
This card is actually just a re-branded Firmtek card has extremely good drivers and updates on firmware on the Firmtek page. It has been around since 2003/2004 and is a great sata controller card. I have never had any issues with any of these cards in any Mac G4 from the 500mhz all the way to the last of the G4 MDD models and into the G5 PowerMacs
I can tell you that chances are if you are purchasing this for a MDD Dual processor model you need to "downgrade" the firmware to a more compatible version.
The latest version shipped on these contains additions for the G5 models and may cause freezing after sleeping on the MDD Dual processor models without downgrading... However I have never had that happen, but the Firmtek support page clearly lists it as a known issue and provides links for the "downgrade firmware"
I give this product 5/5 and recommend it to anyone who is looking to step-up there mac to SATA interfaces and the performance that comes with SATA.
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