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Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Works as advertised
Cons: Slows boot time significantly
Other Thoughts: Users who knock the card because it doesn't work with SSD drives are uniformed and uneducated.
If you buy a non-SSD card how can you knock it? Makes absolutely no sense. It is not tested to be used with SSD drives because it is NOT AN SSD CARD.
Users should read the product description before buying and stop making uninformed purchases, and then they blame the product for their ignorance.
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ADAPTEC=Trouble
Reviewed By: on 4/9/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Good Customer Support. Badly engineered product.
Cons: Card doesn't work with SSD drives. I have tried to setup a RAID 0 with 3 60 Gb OCZ SSD disks and it always drops one with no apparent reason. RAID 0 with two works, but read/write performance is worse than single drive. NO 128 Kb STRIPE SIZE!!!! My Old SIL3132 had that. Still use it, but it is SATA 1.0a compliant. They have never tested this card with SSD. Their HD support datasheet is extremely old.
Other Thoughts: Do not buy it!. It won't work with SSD. Go with Areca Arc-1210. 3 times more expensive, but it is all worth it. RAID expansion and migration on the go.
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Update of Review
Reviewed By: Andy on 4/7/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Occasionally the card works as advertised.
Cons: Really poor technical support.
After 4 months of trying to make this card work, the computer still hangs (only when the card is installed). The hang-ups occur 2 out of every 3 boots. It is at this same point that the card polls the drives. Tried two different drive manufacturers and three different models and the card still hangs intermittently. Adaptec first RMAed the card, then said it was a hard drive problem, despite my pointing out that this occurs with two different manufacturers drives.
By hang, I mean that XP (32) SP3 displays the start-up screen, the worm goes left to right and then the card's status lights start to flash. After eight flashes, if everything goes well the attached drives are polled and XP continues booting. If not, the status lights rapidly flash another 5 times and XP hangs - never recovering.
Now Adaptec tech support simply won't respond to my questions. I guess when you are stumped not saying anything is a response in itself?
Other Thoughts: Newegg, you want this card back after four months and one RMA?
Won't be buying any Adaptec products again...
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Model
Brand
Adaptec
Model
2240900-R
Form Factor
Low Profile Ready
Specifications
Type
SATA
Internal Connectors
4 x SATA II
Interface
PCI Express 4-lane 2.5 Gb/s
Transfer Rate
up to 3 Gb/s per port
RAID
RAID 0/1/10 JBOD
Operating Systems Supported
Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux SuSE Linux Novell NetWare
Dimensions
4.7" x 2.5"
Features
Features
4 Serial ATA 3Gb/s Ports for support of up to 4 SATA disk drives Native Command Queuing 48-bit LBA support for drives above 137GB Low-profile form factor Bootable array support RoHS compliant
Packaging
Package Contents
2240900-R Quick Install Guide Driver Disk 4 x SATA Cables
Reviewed By: on 7/5/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
