Pros: - Easy to find SiL3114 drivers
- Drivers can be sideloaded to a windows XP install
- Still good enough to make a dirt cheap 120/8GB SSD worth using for a 'retro'ish Windows XP install
- Pretty workable for use on some older hardware.
- SATA I over PCI is still enough to make booting OS's and loading games fast as all hell with aforementioned dirt cheap SSD

Cons: - Have to sideload drivers to a WinXP install, but I get why
- Uh, it doesn't work right if it's not mounted properly on my strung together wicker test bench?
- Only SATA I spec, and PCI bus limited, but you're not transferring multiple gigs of data anyway
- Maybe a SATA II spec would be better? At least maybe in a single drive application

Other Thoughts: I used it to have a chance at properly adapting a cheap SSD to a salvaged Compaq AMD Socket A system, With a 2.1GHz Barton Core, 512MB PC100/133 mismatched, the compaq mobo based on some nforce chipset but severly limited, an MX4000 (Unfortunately it's the 128MB version which sounds nice but is really debilitated by the 64-bit bus instead of the 128-bit you'd really want), and my cheap SSD is a 128GB Silicon Power A 55. I didn't get to play many games a significant amount of time, but booting and running Need For Speed: Underground 2 was absolutely snappy and flawless.

If you're just needing An SATA Adapter, then this is just fine. Eventually I will buy 4 matching cheapo SSD's and see how bad it's bottlenecked by the PCI bus more than the SATA I spec, but that might be a while

Pros: Good for what it is: 4 SATA ports, offset in pairs at two different edges on the card. Runs in Windows 10 without issue. Comes with 2 SATA cables (red). This is a PCI card, not express, so it runs at SATA 1 spec

Cons: For traditional installations, The 90 deg index on the SATA port is such that a right angle cable will be facing upward. Also, two of the ports face out to the left which may lead to some cable management oddness.

Other Thoughts: This is likely a product for a bygone era that happens to still be on sale. SYBA went through a website revision it appears, and while up to date driver for the card exists, information about upgrading the BIOS to support RAID 5 is on an unattached page (another reviewer here mentioned the link). I needed this card to free up SATA ports on the motherboard and my graphics card blocks up my free PCI-Express slot, This card is spec'd at SATA-1, so it is ideal for my 2 DVD burners, and any low speed backup/media drives I want to install at later dates. So for me, this card is exactly what I needed and the price is not too bad for what it is.

Pros: Easy install with Windows 10
I used this card on my unused PCI port to connect 2 DVD drives and thus saved my MOBO SATA ports for my SSDs.
The card has side and back slots for easy connections

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: This is a great choice if you need to save your SATA 3 ports for HDD and SSD.

Pros: None

Cons: On both Windows XP and Windows Vista in raid and non raid I could not get any drive to format. with this controller. Even tried an old 1.5Gb drive and it was a no go. Used 3 different drivers too.

Other Thoughts: It's on it's way back for a refund.

Pros: Met all my needs.... Needed it for data recovery on four HDD. Installed in spare computer and Special software. Had it work very hard for over a week 24/7

Cons: None

Pros: Had this for over a yer and still going strong had 2 laptop hard drives in jbod config for a bit and used it for my 2 optical drives and still am

Cons: None doesn't make me coffee lol

Pros: Easy to install, allows me to add 4 more drives, speeds seem good.

According to the chip manufacturers website, with the new 5.5 bios it also supports RAID 5 and 10. I haven't tried that yet though.

Cons: None yet.

Other Thoughts: I was connecting my optical drive to this controller, so I couldn't use the included driver CD. Found drivers online at http://it.us.syba.com/support_download/download/73-0204-1.html

Extract the ZIP, right click the controller in device manager, click update drivers, locate the extracted files, done. EZ Peezy.

Pros: Simple and easy installation. I bought it to add another drive to an older server. Setup was simple and it has been working so far with out a hitch. "read the instructions"

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I never intended to use the RAID functionality of it.