Some great choices in PCIe SATA Host cards these days. All the cards are Port Multiplier capable and can handle either single drives or Port Multiplier Enclosures with up to 5 drives per external cable. The 4 Port Lycom card is a Silicon Image card that works with both Macs and PCs. This is one of the finest cards we have ever tested - fast and at an awesome price. From Sonnet we have the excellent E4P. This card is compatible with the Dual Core G5s and the MacPro towers.

  We also have a 2 port Lycom card for those needing just one or two external ports. These 2 port cards take only a single lane of PCIe slot and are limited in total maximum throughput. This card uses the SilImage 3132 chipset.

 All these cards are fully capable in Macs or PCs. All cards are Snow Leopard compatible. 2 port card is not yet Lion compatible.

4 Port PCIe Host Cards

Lion and Snow Leopard 32 or 64 bit
MacPro Compatible    Lycom 4 Port PCIe SATAII Host Card

 Lycom LYCeSATA-4e PCIe 4 Port - 4 Port eSATA Host Card for PCI-Express slots. Port Multiplier Capable! Compatible with PCIe G5 ’Dual Core’ Macs, MacPro and Windows XP PCs with open PCIe slot. Great price for a top of the line Silicon Image based card. This is one of the top performers in either Mac or PCs. MacGurus number one PCIe card recommendation. more...

Lion and Snow Leopard 32 or 64 bit
MacPro Compatible      Sonnet Tempo E4P PCIe SATAII Host Card

 Tempo E4P with 4 External SATAII Ports, Port Multiplication capable and superior performance. If you are going to pick a great first product to be released for PCI-Express G5 Macs and PCs, this is the one to choose. Using Port Multiplication Enclosures from MacGurus you can attach up to 20 hard drives to this host card giving awesome capacities and never before seen speeds. Attach drives either directly or through one or more port multipliers, or a combination of both. This card will be hard to match. more...

2 Port PCIe Host Cards

Snow Leopard and
MacPro Compatible     Lycom eSATA 2 Port PCIe Host Card

  Lycom 2 Port eSATA RAID host card for PCs and Macs. Just about any version of Windows supported and Mac OS X version 10.4. Linux as well. PCIe 1 Lane. eSATA connectors. Port Multiplier Capable, perfect for use with the Burly Port Multiplier Enclosures. Will support up to 10 hard drives on port multiplier enclosures. Built in support for RAID0, 1, 0+1 as well as individually mounted JBOD drives. Great versatility at a great price. more...