SYBA SY-PCI40010 PCI SATA II (3.0Gb/s) 4 Port RAID 0/1/5/10 JBOD Card

Pros: Versatile card for adding host based SATA ports. Highly compatible. Very easy setup.

Cons: Not a high performer. For grins hooked up SSD's and benched it. 105MBps peak throughput which is pretty good considering PCI bus limitations.

Other Thoughts: Great for adding SATA ports to older or newer systems. It's host based RAID is not the ultimate,, but can get you basics,

Pros: Low cost. Easy to use. Plug and play with Fedora, I didn't have to do anything. Easily installed in Win 7 with drivers downloaded from Syba's website. Using it as non-RAID at this time, but eventually be adding two more HD as RAID 1, we shall see how it performs then.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: As most of advised, chunk the CD driver that comes with card and download the latest from Syba's website.

Pros: Plug and play, no additional drivers, Win7 and XP64 compatible. Have ran one for over a year on a 24/7 machine without a hitch. Ran another with drives as sata and raid config. Control panel is typical for users with raid setup experience...just learn the setup and don't rush configuring disks. Most non-os setups don't hold your hand while you build. Great little card for the money, buying more for another build. Cheap even if I get a dud. Beats a $300+ buy for simple builds.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Asus M4A78T-e
AMD 955 Black 3.1GHz (Stock)
8Gb Gskill DDR3 1333 10666
Asus EN8400GS silent
Half a dozen HD's
Window's 7, XP64 dual boot.

Pros: none

Cons: While trying to use the raid card with my Freenas 8 OS I can read that it gets time outs on the 4 3TB drive I just bought from you guys, I tested the drives with GW scan and they are fine. I then plugged them into a seprate raid can and again work fine. This card is able to be seen by my OS but the drives get many errors when you try to use it. I would like a refund and try to find a better raid card

Other Thoughts: going to be out cost of shipping to return it. Will just got to local tech store to buy replacment.

update: got the sabrent sata pci card and worked fine.....

Pros: Works fine for what I'm using it for

Cons: Install is pretty wonky, adds time to reboot

Other Thoughts: Running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 I simply needed to add a few more internal SATA headers to my computer for additional hard drive connections for feeding my home network with XBMC media.

The install process is a little wonky, as you need to point to the drivers through the device manager in Windows because the Windows auto finder simply doesn't work for this.

The driver can be found on the Syba website here

http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=530

After getting everything setup and configured for JBOD (which was simple, there was no manual configuration required) the drives were plug and play. They mounted fine in Windows and I simply had to format the new drives and they were ready to go.

I'm running four of the 2TB WD Green drives as a simple JBOD and am getting a sustained transfer rate of ~50-70MB/second

Everything has been working great, I held my breath with this purchase due to mixed reviews but everything worked out fine. I'm writing this "review" to help alleviate any concerns others may have that are in a similar situation that I was.

Like I said, if you're comfortable using the device manager in Windows to install drivers, this card is a piece of cake and works flawlessly for JBOD.

Pros: Cheap

Cons: Unusable except for RAID config

Other Thoughts: After reading the other reviews here, I decided to contact Syba on 2 issues:

- Can a drive connected to this controller be used as a non-RAIDed boot device? According to Syba, NO. They state that at least one partition on the hard disk must be in a RAID config. They gave an example of how to fake out the RAID config so the drive would be bootable but not actually a RAIDED device but it was too complicated that they wouldn't even give me the steps.

- I notified them that their driver download file had no non-RAID drivers. They replied giving me a link to the SAME file download so obviously it still did not have any non-RAID drivers. The folder name tells you it's for RAID drivers. The "r" at the end of the filename tells you they're for RAID. If you look in their .inf file, you will see they say it is for use with RAID. Perhaps you can correctly guess which non-RAID driver to obtain from the Silicon Graphics web site.

I was looking for a PCI host controller card (not PCI-e) that gave me, at least, SATA-2 (3Gbps) support for my SATA-2 and SATA-3 hard disks with an old mobo that only supports SATA-1. I don't need RAID. I don't want RAID. I just want a PCI card for SATA-2 support of my SATA hard disks. This card won't work. Apparently Newegg doesn't think it's viable to carry this kind of PCI SATA-2 non-RAID controller card from which hard disks can be booted so will have to look elsewhere.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

This is a RAID card. The driver avaiable for download is a RAID driver. If RAID is not going to be used, simply ignore the RAID setup and this card will be just like a none RAID card.

If a none RAID driver is installed for this card, the card will not function at all.

You may bootup the system with a hard drive connected to it. However, you may have to reinstall your Windows operating system.

Thank you for purchasing one of our products, and for leaving us your valuable feedback. We value all positive and negative feedback.

Our technical support team is available to help 9am-5pm M-F. Feel free to contact us during those business hours

We are more than happy to provide all of our customers with a prompt exchange whenever a product becomes defective.

SYBA offers an on-line RMA form, the user can easily fill out the form and submit it for a quick RMA return and exchange. It is SYBA's policy to answer all customer inquiries within 24 hours (M-F)

Regards, SYBA CST 03222013

Pros: See previous review on 9/20/2012. Bought second and added to second PC (Intel based) and moved 32 GB SSD to it. Then added two 128 GB SSD's to original PC. Works like a charm on both. Good buy and easy install on both WinXP PC's using JBOD. XP recognized both cards so no xtra required.

Cons: None

Pros: Work perfect on Windows 7

Cons: While booting I see a message "this device is not recognized"
(or something like that) and I never seen this message before I installed this card... but still like I said above this card works perfect. ** 4 drives running off this card ** without issues.

I only took an egg because of this weird message while loading my computer.

Pros: It detects all 4 drives attached to it.

Cons: I tried hooking up 4 2TB drives in a software raid-0 on this device. Whenever I tried to create the partition, all 8 cores of my CPU started firing up wildly until Windows 7 bluescreened. The same result happened when I broke up the raid and tried to write to a single physical hdd attached to the card. Small amounts of data were okay, but not large amounts that would otherwise write just fine to drives attached directly to the motherboard.

Other Thoughts: Avoid this product at all costs.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

Are you running a Windows 7 on an old motherboard with PCI slot?

On the device manager, does the card show up as working?

This is one of our best selling card for the last few years. Please contact our technical support and we might be able to help you. Please provide the following when contact us:

Do you have the driver CD came with our card? If not, please download the driver on our website: www.sybausa.com
What type of data you try to transfer?
What is the memory size?
How many PCI solt on your motherboard?

Our technical support team is available to help 9am-5pm M-F. Feel free to contact us during those business hours at support@sybausa.com

SYBA offers an online RMA form, the user can easily fill out the form and submit it for a quick RMA return and exchange. It is SYBA's policy to answer all customer inquiries within 24 hours (M-F)

We apologize for any issues that you are having. As you know we are more than happy to provide our customers with a hassle free exchange when a product is defective.

Thank you for purchasing one of our products, and for leaving us your valuable feedback. We value all positive and negative feedback.

Regards, SYBA CST 03082013

Pros: 4 SATA II connections, up to 3.0 Gbps transfer speed.

Cons: Not plug & play. Included software/drivers are useless (I'm running Win7Pro64SP1)

Other Thoughts: There's a reason R.A.I.D. cards are over $300. I didn't buy this for RA.I.D. & nor would I ever suggest it be used for that purpose (you get what you pay for). All I need(ed) was a few more serial ATA connections (I ran out ^_^).