Failure to power off a Tempo card before ejecting it may have an unpredictable result for OS X.
You should follow these steps:
1. Unmount any drives attached to the Tempo card by dragging them to the Eject icon in the dock.
2. Click the Card's icon in the menu bar and select "Power Off Card" from the drop down menu.
3. Push and release the Tempo card to eject.
Another manufacturer's previously-installed SATA driver may be accessing a Sonnet SATA card in error causing a drive access slowdown. For example, we have seen Fusion D400QR5 performance drop from 200MB/s to under 50MB/s in such circumstances. The solution is to remove the other manufacturer's SATA driver.