- RAID 0/1
- 2 x SATA 150 Internal Connectors
- Transfer Rate 1.5Gb/s
DON'T BUT FOR AN OPTICAL DRIVE
06/18/2010
This review is from: Rosewill RC-201 PCI SATA Silicon Image, RAID 0/1, Normal and Low Profile Host Controller Card
Pros:
1) The card is cheap.
2) With the help of those who posted info about the jumper setting, it works fine in the sense it didn't prevent my computer from starting - at least not exactly.
3) My optical drive works better with the card -- once I get the computer started
4) Good customer support
Cons:
I bought this card for my optical drive. I have a five year old motherboard and the SATA connections are clearly for hard drives. My optical drives does work much better plugged into the card. BUT you cannot have the bios set to boot first from the optical drive. which presents obvious problems. The computer stops and I have to hit F1 to continue. I confirmed this with someone at Rosewill.
What really makes me mad is that it didn't occur to Rosewill to add a note in the specifications making this clear. In combination with the lack of info on the jumper setting mentioned by others, Rosewill looks pretty incompetent as a company. I would never risk buying another Rosewill product based on the lack of information/disclosure. How can you trust a company like that?
Overall Review:
I find it really odd that a company with good customer support ( received a call back within 15 min. and everyone was pleasant) is so incompetent at adding basic information about their products.
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- Douglas S.
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