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Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: less than 1 day
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Pros: Adds extra SATA ports. That's it.
Cons: THIS IS NOT A RAID CONTROLLER! DON"T BUY THIS LIKE I ACCIDENTALLY DID IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A RAID CONTROLLER!!! This has no RAID support whatsoever.
Other Thoughts: Nothing yet. Hope they accept my RMA request. I should've been more vigilant when reading the specifications.
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Great for large storage needs
Reviewed By: Tim on 11/30/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: I ordered four of these cards for use in a NORCO RPC-4020 case, and they work phenomenally well. I've had issues with other cards where using more than one breaks the motherboard's Option ROM handling; not so with these. It loads a single ROM, which will then detect drives attached to _all_ the cards in the system.
Right now I'm using the cards for a RAID6 array across 1TB drives (currently eight, expanding to sixteen soon) under Linux 2.6.30. The drives vary in manufacturer, but all are SATAII, 7200RPM, and have 32MB cache. Rebuilding the array with a new drive gave me 23MB/s throughput, and the system itself (a media server) played a 1080p video file (768kbit/s video, 128kbit/s audio) during the resync with little effect on the resync and no noticeable lag or jitter in the video.
The drives show up in the BIOS setup clearly, so you can keep a boot drive hooked up directly to your board and boot from that, or you can boot from any card-attached drive easily.
Cons: My particular Linux distro (Gentoo, using distro-specific kernel sources) liked to swap around the drive order on boot; the result was that the board would load the bootloader from the system drive, as appropriate, but then the kernel it booted would try to mount the root filesystem from the first card-attached drive. Compiling the card driver as a module rather than in-kernel fixed that problem, but it was a bit of a hassle to figure out.
The port layout on the cards is a little weird - two of the ports are towards the back, whereas two are on the side of the card close to the faceplate. Make sure your SATA cables are long enough, especially in bigger cases.
Other Thoughts: I haven't tried any of the onboard RAID functions at all - every RAID array I've set up has been using Linux mdadm. I also haven't performance-tested the cards with all sixteen drives attached, nor have I tested them at all under any variant of Windows.
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Works with FreeBSD 8.0RC3
Reviewed By: ntice on 11/12/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: less than 1 day
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Pros: Just got it. Seems to work fine
Cons: Just got it. Seems to work fine.
Other Thoughts: The big deal here is that I successfully installed FreeBSD 8.0 RC3 using this card and a couple new 500GB SATA drives on an old Dual Pentium 3 system. FreeBSD is wonderful, but it can be hard to know what hardware will work with it. So just in case anyone else is curious, it is recognized and boots off the new drives fine.
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Model
Brand
PROMISE
Model
SATA300 TX4
Specifications
Type
SATA II
Internal Connectors
4 x SATA II
Interface
PCI
Transfer Rate
Up to 300MB/s
Operating Systems Supported
Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Linux open source code
Dimensions
2" x 4.7"
Features
Features
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) SATA Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) Large LBA support for drives above 137GB Supports Serial ATAPI devices Flexible future-proof upgrade for users with motherboards that only have a PCI interface 66 MHz PCI bus supports up to 266MB/sec burst data transfer rate
Reviewed By: Michael Sulzer on 12/3/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: less than 1 day
