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Pros: None that I can speak of, other than it is cheap and easy to have a redundant card when it only costs 40 bucks.
Cons: I could not get this card to work with 4 Samsung 1.5 TB drives in RAID 5 config. I could seemingly create the RAID 5 array in card BIOS and then boot Windows, load the driver for the card and initialize the drive and format it. But, when I reboot windows afer formatting the 4.2 TB array, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit hangs on the Wndows blinking beacon logo screen. Apparently a driver issue. Also tried the SiI reference driver to no avail. Basically a waste of money for me.
Other Thoughts: I would like a fix to this but that looks unlikely given the age of this card so I would strongly suggest staying away from this card.
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Not for Windows 7 apparently...
Reviewed By: -Rodger on 2/6/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: So far, no pros.
Cons: Using the latest driver (which came with the card), I'm unable to initialize any of the 4 drives connected to this card using Disk Manager (Windows 7 app). All the drives are shown, but will not initialize. I tried a low-level format on one drive and went back to try and initialize it using Disk Manager, but still wouldn't initialize.
I expect this to either be a bad card, or an incompatibility with my particular computer (HP m7640n Desktop). I'll call their support dept. next week and have already sent an email, but since I've done computer service work for about 20 years now, I'd not expect to see them come up with anything I've not already tried.
BTW - Rosewill's RC-209 EX does work, but it is way slow (about 35 MB/s) which is about half of what the on-board SATA controller on this ASUS m/board does. So, even if I find a way to get this working, I don't expect I see any more then about 65~70 MB/s throughput anyway.
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Works great with WHS
Reviewed By: IndyDad on 1/23/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: I bought this for my WHS machine, and it was plug and play. I am not running in a Raid mode so I cant speak for that, but I briefly set it up in JBOD, and then I was able to figure out how to set it up so that all of the drive would be recognized individually.
Cons: None for me.
Other Thoughts: 4 SATA II ports at a good price, and it works well with WHS. If you are looking to expand your system then I recommend this card.
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Model
Brand
Rosewill
Model
RC-217
Specifications
Type
SATA II
Internal Connectors
4 x SATA II
Interface
PCI
Transfer Rate
Up to 3Gb/s
RAID
RAID 0/1/5/10
Operating Systems Supported
Windows 2000 ,XP and 2003 Server Mac OS X v10.3.9 and v10.4 Non-booting driver supported by SiliconImage SiI3124.
Features
Features
Provides 2 Brackets to Support Low profile PCI and Regular size PCI in one card 48 bits LBA can Break Capacity-Limit to Support HDD larger than 137GB
Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0a and Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a Specifications revision 1.1 Hot-plug capability Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0 Gb/s Supports SATA II First-party DMA commands for Native Command Queuing (NCQ) Supports Serial ATA II Port Multiplier 1.0 Specifications revision 1.1 Plesiochronous, Single PLL architecture, 1 PLL for 4 ports Supports four independent Serial ATA channels Independent Link, Transport, data FIFO, command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution 31 Commands and Scatter/Gather Tables per Port Supports bootable drive Four Pin header on board for LED connection RAID 5 (Distributed Parity RAID) has Highest Read data transaction rate and Good aggregate transfer rate JBOD is a virtual disk that combines all disk drives as one entire disk drive Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to multiple drives Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives RAID 0+1 (Mirrored-Stripping) combine both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring Completely with drivers for Windows 2000 ,XP and 2003 Server Supports 64bit / 32bit Windows Vista Mac OS X v10.3.9 and v10.4 Non-booting driver supported by SiliconImage SiI3124. Linux 32bit / 64bit drivers supported for RHEL 4.0 Up2, RHEL 4.0 Up3, SuSE9.0 SP2, SuSE9.0 SP3 by SiliconImage SiI3124. Fully RoHS compliant
Reviewed By: cdedecke on 2/9/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
