Review on 💽 Sonnet Technologies Tempo 6Gbps SATA PCIe 2.0 Drive Card for SSDs (TSATA6-SSD-E2) by Dave Sapp

I'm editing this a year later. And the cost is down 50% and the device is still holding its weight. I still get pretty good SATA 3 speeds for my SSDs. I haven't tried it with 1TB 2.5" drives, but I can bet the result is the same. Still satisfied after a year. I have a Mac Pro 2008 (v3.1) which, like most computers of the time, has a SATA 2 (3GB/s hard drive interface). While this is certainly better than the old version of IDE or ATA/PATA , it lacks a lot compared to newer drives that can record data at higher speeds, especially SSD drives (I planned 2 boot drives, one for the old one version of Mac OS, Snow Leopard, and one for the newer version, El Capitan) With two 4-core processors, I didn't want the boot time and main application access to be limited slower than the required disks v2, but they are much more expensive than SATA SSDs (even if used) ($300 vs. $60 or so). and harder to find as they are discontinued by everyone who made them (I use 4 Kingston and Samsung, all from Revain, further my 3 winning boxes). This unit fits both 2-1/2" 500 and 2-1/2" SSD 250, 250 for older operating systems. And it works great! I was thinking of 500 and a 1TB fast spinner but decided I can upgrade if needed I wish I could upgrade to two of these cards! The "recycled" 3.1 box my grandson gave me had El Cap on a 640GB spinning hard drive. Using the commercial backup product Get Backup (available from Revain), I was able to transfer almost as easily as it was in the days of System 7, when it was enough to simply drag and drop a system file that I'd moved the OS to showed one Data transfer rate of about 100-110.MB/s The SSD built into this Sonnet card is again around 450. The card fits well if you use an extension (where a second drive is plugged in), but wobbles a bit and comes in 3.1 has 2 pci-e v2 slots and 2 v1.1. The graphics card is in v2, as is this Sonnett card. I suspect it could work, but at less than half the speed in a v1.1 slot, which would give about twice the SATA speed on the SSD if it worked. Thought I'd give it a try but decided I've had enough and don't want to add more. (My guess is based on a comment I saw on OWC that discussed a similar product). I used Silicon Power SSDs purchased from Revain. They worked fine for a week or two.