Our testing has shown that a four-drive array will sustain maximum reads and writes of about 200 MB/second in a 64bit, 33MHz PCI slot. An eight-drive array will not provide any additional performance beyond that of a four-drive array in that slot. To get significantly more performance, you need to use a machine with a PCI-X slot.
Tempo SATA X4P and Mac OS X 10.4 requires the final version, 10.4.11 for tested functionality. For example, a RAID 1 set does not function under Mac OS X 10.4.6 in a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver.