- RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD
- 2 x SATA II Internal Connectors
- Up to 3Gb/s
Unreliable stop-gap
01/06/2014
This review is from: Rosewill RC-211 Silicon Image 2 port SATA II PCI Express Host Controller Card RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD
Pros:
Works. Detects drives that modern UEFI bioses might refuse to detect. Can be flashed to non-RAID card easily.
Cons:
Super unreliable. Absolutely will not handle sustained reads. I started with two drives connected to this thing. Basically got a BSoD every single time Windows wanted to use VM on one of the drives, so I migrated one drive to a new drive and thought I fixed that problem. Finally today, I wake up to my computer being powered off. The remaining drive was wrecked. Took two or three chkdsk attempts just to "fix" it. Lost an entire program directory and a couple hours of my life.
Luckily, the mobo has miraculously fixed itself. Previously, the mobo refused to detect this drive, now it does. Not sure how that works, but I'll take it. Drive is attached to the mobo where it belongs. SATA card is back in the box where it belongs. Hopefully I'll never need this hunk of junk ever again.
Thanks for nothing to all parties involved. Silicon Image should be ashamed of themselves.
Overall Review:
Just buy USB 3.0 adapters. They can't be any worse.
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- Timothy M.
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