Joined on 04/02/02
Excellent board
Pros: High quality Intel-made board - very fast with a E6750 and 2GB Kingston memory.
Cons: None right now
Overall Review: If the board is in AHCI mode Windows installs fine if you slipstream the drivers via nLite.
It works
Pros: Price. It works and is faster than IDE and non-NCQ SATA
Cons: Minor gripes: It's a Promise, not the first brand that comes to mind when you think "quality".
Overall Review: I can't speak for motherboard compatibility, but I've used these in a Dell Dimension 4600 and a Dell PowerEdge 600SC without incident. From a standpoint of quality and performance there are better cards out there.
Excellent - typical Supermicro quality
Pros: This is an excellent upgrade for an older P4 system that doesn't support SATA w/NCQ. It gives better performance than almost any other PCI SATA cards I've tried.
Cons: It's a bit pricy but IMO worth it. Linux does not yet support the NCQ features of this card.
Overall Review: It would rock if they made a 4 port version of this card. Like someone else said, it's the only non-RAID 8-port SATA card out there - everything else is a true hardware RAID card.
Newegg's description is wrong
Pros: Stil an excellent board as per my last review.
Cons: Still none
Overall Review: Newegg's description of this board is wrong; it supports DDR2 667 (for a 1333MHz FSB), NOT DDR3.
Wonderful, wonderful board
Pros: High quality and STABLE board. No problems what-so-ever after flashing the BIOS; currently running RHEL4.
Cons: Mine shipped with a corrupted BIOS. Had to flash it before it would boot from any media. Wish they had integrated the second serial port rather than using an expansion bracket.
Overall Review: The E7210 chipset is the server version of Intels 875 - the gigabit port is connected via CSA. Make sure your PSU is either ATX12v or EPS12v. Where the h-e-double-hockeysticks are the AMD equivalents?
Comments: Great card! Works like a champ for RAID1 and RAID5, especially with the optional BBU. Better cross-platform support than Adaptec, and cheaper to boot. Highly recommended.