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Mediasonic >
Mediasonic ProBox HP1-SS3 PCI-Express 2.0 x1 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card
 
Did not work with my Sans Digital TowerRaid TR4M+B
- Pros: Cheap
- Cons: Drivers did not work with my AMD-based system and Sans Digital eSATA box. System would hang up when booted and eSATA box was on or if system was booted with eSATA box off and then turned on after boot was complete. Tried both available driver versions.
- Other Thoughts: Can figure out why this company makes it so difficult to get the drivers. Never heard of having to go to a web forum to get drivers for an add-on card.
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/24/2013 4:03:33 PM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is Somewhat High and has owned this product 1 day to 1 week.
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3ware Internal 9750-4i SATA/SAS 6Gb/s PCI-Express 2.0 w/ 512MB onboard memory Controller Card, Single
Working so far, comes with worst instructions for updatest I've ever seen
- Pros: After initial setup the card is working so far,
- Cons: It comes with an older firmware and does not support 4tb drives out of the box.
none of the instructions make any sense on how to update the firmware. Nothing online makes sense.
Utterly shameful and frustrating to the point of wishing I bought another brand.
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/23/2013 7:58:35 PM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is Somewhat Low and has owned this product 1 week to 1 month.
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Syba >
SYBA SI-PEX40061 PCI-Express 2.0 x1 Low Profile Ready SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card
Piece of Junk!!!
- Pros: It gives you the ability to add on extra SATA slots.
- Cons: Durability! I have only had this card for 45 days. The device stopped working, and because it has been over 30 days there is no option for a return or exchange.
- Other Thoughts: The item stopped working 45 days after purchase!!! One minute working next the drive are no longer recognized! Computer states that the drive have become disconnected, please reconnect. Trace the lines all is connected well, and drives function on a different Sata port. Piece of junk don't buy!
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/23/2013 3:17:02 PM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is average and has owned this product 1 month to 1 year.
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SYBA SD-SATA150R PCI 2.2 SATA Controller Card
Works great! Great Value!
- Pros: Worked great to find an sata hard drive I added as a slave.
- Cons: Instructions should say that you should install the drivers off the CD First before you install in PCI
- Other Thoughts: Note: Install the drivers off the CD before installing in a pci slot. Otherwise you will get a screen stating that you have an unrecognized pci device.
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Reviewed By:KeysParkPro,5/23/2013 9:21:22 AM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is Somewhat High and has owned this product 1 day to 1 week.
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SYBA SY-PEX50039 PCI Express SATA / IDE RAID Controller Card
Does not work with my system
- Pros: inexpensive
- Cons: I have a ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2N68-AM Plus Rev X.0x Motherboard with a rev 1 PCI-e setup. The x1 slot was not available and because the Rev1 x1 slot is offset the card would not fit the other slots. After talking with their support I removed the mounting bracket to have it fit into the x16 slot available. The system will not even start to boot with the card installed- a second of fan whir and it goes dark. They told me it was tested for all motherboards (but not mounted in the case so that is why the mounting bracket issue was unknown, but the card is not compatible with my computer. Since they want a restocking fee for a return I just set the card aside for using in another computer some time later and will look for a different card to expand with.
- Other Thoughts: I am sure it is a good card for newer motherboards, but it is not as universal as I had hoped from the descriptions.
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/23/2013 9:12:22 AM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is Somewhat High and has owned this product 1 month to 1 year.
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HighPoint Technologies, Inc. >
HighPoint RocketRAID 2722 PCI-Express 2.0 x8 Low Profile SATA / SAS RAID Controller Card
It's an SAS RAID card
- Pros: 8 SAS/SATA 6GB/s connections through two SFF interfaces. Installation was easy enough and the included software makes management and maintenance a breeze.
I obtained near theoretical IO speeds with 4 short stroked Constellation drives in RAID 10. - Cons: This is not completely a hardware level RAID controller. It has a BIOS accessible during boot. Here you can create arrays and various other drive utilities. Unfortunetly, the arrays will not initialize until the software is installed and ran.
- Other Thoughts: Other than the software needing to be running, this is a great card. The software is only there for configuration and management and as such does not put much, if any, of a load on the system.
I am using this card to build an external mirror array of our internal RAID 10e array on a Xeon file server running win server 08 r2. A little extreme in the redundancy, but necessary.
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Reviewed By:Morehead,5/22/2013 6:05:26 AM
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SYBA SY-PEX40039 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card
Fast & reliable.
- Pros: Easy plug & play. I installed this controller card on a HTPC that already had Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit installed and configured. After removing the old SATA controller, I popped this one in with the low profile bracket and powered up. Windows Update came up and found the drivers and then rebooted. After the system came back up it runs great. I rebooted at least 7 times after browsing the internet and watching HDTV in Windows Media Center.
- Cons: None whatsoever.
- Other Thoughts: You can't go wrong with these cards when upgrading to SSD drives on older computers. You don't want to run a new SSD drive with the onboard SATA controller. You need one of these!
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Reviewed By:Carl C.,5/21/2013 9:57:28 AM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is High and has owned this product 1 day to 1 week.
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StarTech PEXESAT322I PCI-Express x1 Low Profile Ready SATA III (6.0Gb/s) 2 Int/2 Ext SATA Controller Card
Not for Windows Server 2012
- Pros: StarTech customer support did respond to my question.
- Cons: StarTech's response was "At this time we have no ETA on Server 2012 drivers". I thought this was a newer card, but I guess driver support for last year's Server OS is too much to wish for.
- Other Thoughts: They did say "The Windows 7 drivers should support Windows 8, but I can't verify that. It definitely does not support Windows Server 2012. Have to look for another controller card to handle my TowerRaid TR8M.
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/20/2013 7:58:03 PM
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Rosewill RC-201 PCI SATA Silicon Image, RAID 0/1, Normal and Low Profile Host Controller Card
Great Way To Add SATA To An Older Computer
- Pros: PCI connection for older computers.
Cheap.
Works well. - Cons: Would be unusable if it needed to be half-height, which is a feature the product advertises.
- Other Thoughts: The SATA connectors are on the top edge of the card, so if you try to use it as a half-height card, there would be little to no room for attaching the cables. I suppose if you have right-angle connectors, it'd work, but may be tight.
Installed and worked nicely on a Windows Home Server box of mine.
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Reviewed By:Sean C.,5/20/2013 6:17:02 PM
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StarTech PEXESAT322I PCI-Express x1 Low Profile Ready SATA III (6.0Gb/s) 2 Int/2 Ext SATA Controller Card
General Eval of StarTech Pexesat322I
- Pros: Fast ship, easy install (installed in PCIEx16 slot) with no problems with Win 7pro drivers on X58 chipset Asus mobo P6T dlx V2. Tested with sata3 drive, and works as advertised. Very happy with this controller card as mobo only comes with sata2.
- Cons: NA
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/20/2013 3:57:46 PM
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