Rosewill RC-200 PCI IDE (ATA) Silicon Image RAID (0/1/0+1/JBOD) Host Controller Card

Reviews(226)

3.9
TOP FAVORABLE REVIEW
Tried and True

Simple-Proven 6-80 Chipset-Long Lasting

None

This is a real steal for a controller card that is unbeatable in many respects...
Been using this card, and its Koutech cousin for years.
My Server has one of these running and XP 1700 and 2 Samsungs in Raid 0+1...its that old.
Paired with good 7200 hard drives, it will easily do 90 to 110 mbs/sec.

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TOP CRITICAL REVIEW
Not all RAID is equal

Dual channel IDE for those old drives.

SLOW! This adds about one minute to bootup if left in RAID mode.
That is a little over the top for FAKE RAID.
No new RAID Firmware since 2006. Whereas the Non-RAID Firmware has been updated multiple times. This is not really Rosewill's fault, but is since they decided use the SI chips.

Only three Eggs because of the ridiculously slow boot time with RAID enabled. It is slower than my actual hardware RAID that _is_ controlling the drives and not relying on the OS/CPU to do so.
Windows Drivers on the CD are a little dated, get the new ones online.
In Linux use dmraid.

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Features & Details

  • Support 4 ATA HD Max
  • Silicon Image 0680
  • RAID 0/1/0+1

Specifications

Model
BrandRosewill
ModelRC-200
Details
TypeIDE
Internal Connectors2 x ATA 133
InterfacePCI
RAIDRAID 0,1,0+1 JBOD
Operating Systems SupportedWindows 98SE/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista 32/64bit
Features
FeaturesSilicon Image SiI 0680 Compliant with UltraDMA6 ATA/133 specifications Compliant with PCI v2.2 Plug-n-Play Provides two independent Ultra ATA channels Full ACPI power management support Supports Ultra DMA 0-6 and Multi-word DMA 0-2 Supports hard drives larger than 137GB Supports RAID 0(Striping), RAID1(Mirroring) and RAID 0+1 (Mirror+Striping) CRC(Cyclical Redundancy Check) error-checking provides data verification and achieves flawless data transfer Achieves burst data transfer rates up to 133MB/sec Works with various brand of Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 hard disk drives Warning:RC-200 is design for hard drive only and can't work with DVD ROM. If you want to plug a DVD ROM, please consider RC-208.
Package Contents
Package ContentsUser Manual Driver Disk 1 x IDE Cable
Additional Information
First Listed on NeweggJanuary 17, 2006
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