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Compatibility issues
- Pros: Cheap card which support RAID1.
- Cons: Doesn't work on Windows XP Media Center Edition.
I called to SIIG company and they told me that they are not going to support Windows Vista for this card.
- Other Thoughts: It is important for this hardware to work on all operation systems. You won't buy a harddrive which won't be compatible with new operation system why would you buy a RAID card which is not.
Old and out of date
- Pros: Simple to install.
If it works out of the box for you, maybe it will hold up. If you have problems, though, you're on your own.
- Cons: Gets in the way of booting from CD in the BIOS. It's a real pain trying to shuffle between IDE and SIIG to get an OS installed. I had to install an old IDE drive to boot from.
Documentation is minimal at best. Support is very poor.
The Medley GUI is primitive.
- Other Thoughts: I really want this as a boot drive on Vista. It mostly works (though not as boot), but I've had several disk corruptions and the RAID set has rebuilt itself half a dozen times.
It's 5 years old and most of the RAID stuff has moved to SATA, so there seem to be no further plans for support.
Be wary if using with Maxtor Drives!
- Pros: Worked well for over a year.
- Cons: Don't know if the card is at fault but two of my Maxtor drives failed within a few days time after owning them for over a year. A third Maxtor drive that was not connected to the card also died shortly thereafter. Recovery counsels indicate that there are bad sectors.
- Other Thoughts: These problems may have occurred by means other than the card (500w power supply is not large enough, heat problems & the ability for Maxtor drives to withstand heat). If you don't have any Maxtor drives you should be fine because all my Western Digital drives connected to the card are still running fine.
| Model |
| Brand |
SIIG |
| Model |
SC-PR4B12 |
| Specifications |
| Type |
IDE |
| Interface |
32-bit PCI |
| Transfer Rate |
Achieves burst data transfer rates up to 133MB/sec |
| RAID |
RAID 0/1/0+1 |
| Operating Systems Supported |
Windows98SE/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP/Server 2003 |
| Features |
| Features |
Port type: Two IDE 40-pin connectors
Compatibility:
Compliant with specification, revision 2.2
Compliant with ATA/ATAPI-6 Specifications
Compliant with UDMA6 ATA/133 Specifications
Supports PCI 33 MHz with 32-bit data
Full backward support for Ultra ATA/100/66/33 standards
On-board flash BIOS for future upgrade
Data Transfer Modes supported:
Supports Ultra DMA (0-6) and Multi-word DMA mode (0-2)
Achieves burst data transfer rates up to 133MB/sec
CRC error-checking provides data verification and achieves flawless data transfer
Device Support:
Breaks the 137GB barrier! Supports various types of large capacity hard disk drives
Supports various brands of Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 hard disk drives
Coexists with on-board IDE controller and allows you connect up to 4 IDE hard drives
RAID Features:
RAID 0 (striping) interleaves data across multiple hard disk drives, which increases disk system performance dramatically
RAID 1 (Mirroring) simultaneously writes data to two hard drives for data redundancy
RAID 0+1 (Mirroring + Striping) the best of both worlds - combines mirroring + striping - four hard drives required for this mode
Acts as a conventional (non-RAID) controller when not configured for RAID
On-board BIOS supports booting from attached hard drive or stripe set
Advanced Features:
Auto-detects drive types and fine tunes to the best performance for each Ultra ATA hard disk drive
Support scatter/gather, multi-threaded, multi-tasking and automatic FIFO threshold selection
Provides two independent Ultra ATA channels (built-in 256-bytes FIFOS per channel) for faster data transfer
Full support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) for advanced system power management |
| Packaging |
| Package Contents |
SC-PR4B12
Floppy Drive Diskette
2 x IDE/PATA Cable
Power Cable
Resource Disk |
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Reviewed By: Alex on 3/22/2007
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
