Syba PCI Express SATA II 4 x Ports RAID Controller Card SY-PEX40008
Submitted by admin on Monday, 4 January 2010One Comment
Product Description
SIL3124 chipset with PCI-Express Interface. Compliant with PCI Express Specification Revision 1.0a. 1-Lane (x1) PCI Express with transfer rate 2.5 Gb/s Full Duplex channel. Fully Plug & Play compatible. Supports Raid function 0, 1, 5, 10. SATA II Interface. Integrated Serial ATA Link and PHY logic. Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 and Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0 Specifications. Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0 Gb/s. Supports Serial A… More >>
Syba PCI Express SATA II 4 x Ports RAID Controller Card SY-PEX40008
This is a great addition for anyone looking to add more SATA devices to their computer. I personally needed more ports to accommodate more hard drives in my newly-installed SATA backplane, and didn’t want to use port multiplier technology due to concerns over bandwidth constraints. This card is PCIe 1x and works like a charm; I’m running under Ubuntu 9.04, and literally didn’t need to perform any setup beyond installing the card and plugging in my drives. The featured SIL3124 chipset is widely supported, which is one of the reasons I went for this model.
Good price, great value–why get a card with anything less than four ports if you’re going to install one anyway?–and works like a charm. Highly recommended. Note that the card also supports RAID functionality, but I’m not using it as I’ve already got a software RAID running via mdadm under Linux.
Rating: 5 / 5
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