Pros: Works great running my 2 Western Digital hard drives (WD2500KS). The software installation worked the first time and have been pleased on the performance. I upgraded from IDE hard drives and didn't have a mother board that would support 3gb/s sata2 disks. First time I've set up a raid array (0) and it worked perfect.

Cons: There is a problem with the highpoint drivers and Windows System Restore, which I had to do a little research. Here is the link to the solution: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322246/en-us

Overall Review: I think their website should post a link to this solution as well, in case others have the same problem.

Pros: Works well. Has all of the features like email notification and a web client that you would expect

Cons: Drivers not loaded by default in 2003 in setup which means dusting off the old floppy drive. What a friggen pain

Overall Review: Windows Home Server SP1 OEM has an error on the disc which makes it hard to load the drivers for the RAID card. YOU MUST use an old style floppy drive (not USB) as the GUI installer reboots the computer and a script misplaces the path of the drivers. A floppy works like a champ. If I had started with that instead of trying USB, and then BartPE to edit path of the drivers, and then . . . . . . I would have been a lot happier. Just an FYI

Pros: This is a great little card for RAID 1. Not much of a performance hit (thanks to true hardware RAID) with WD Raptor drives. Windows 2003 Server boots quite quickly.

Cons: Wish I spent and extra $40 for the 3120 which is PCI-Express and has 128MB onboard, however does just fine for the boot drive.

Overall Review: Shipped with 1.0 firmware, but updated to Firmware 1.1. Don't let the poor reviews steer you from this card, Linux/Mac/Dell users neet to put the compatability issues on their system and not this card!

Pros: This is the first HighPoint raid controller I have used. Set it up in a Raid 1. I have always ued Promise Raid cards before. Believe me HighPoint is so much easier to setup and configure that I am staying with HighPoint from now on. Use it on Windows Server 2003. Tryed a tech net version of Windows Server 2008 but it did not find the drives. Perhaps just needs different drivers and I have not looked for them yet. Content with 2003 version yet anyway

Cons: Wish they had a safe way to convert Promise Raid 1 controled drives to HighPoint Raid 1

Overall Review: I am done with Promise after using one of the HighPoint Raid drive controllers. At least for new installs.

Pros: Runs cool, 3.0Gbs/sec transfer rate, extremely easy installation and setup

Cons: nadda

Overall Review: If your running sata 2 drives in raid, I highly recomend this card, don't dumb down your drives to 1.5Gbs/sec transfer.

Pros: 1. 107.0/92.1 MB/s burst/average transfer over 2 TB range, 4% CPU 2. Runs in 66MHz as well as 33MHz slot 3. HDD drive activity LED headers, plus disk fail LED headers, beeper audio alert 4. 64-bit LBA for 2 TB single partitions

Cons: 1. No SMART data pass-through available for smartmontools, HD Tune 2. Device managment console reports only SMART index values, not raw data, no data range monitoring 3. Transfer rates capped by PCI, not 3 Gbps 4. Can't copy data from managment console panes to clipboard for documentation purposes -- screenshots only

Overall Review: Inexcusably, this device passes no SMART data to Windows that can be used by SMART monitoring software like smartmontools or HD Tune. Does not even pass model and serial number, so useless as just a PCI host bus adapter onto which you can attach SATA drives to an older motherboard. Flexibility but complexity of a web-style managent console interface. Did not test RAID. -- Roy Zider

Pros: Didn't get to use it so can't say.

Cons: Didn't get to use so can't say.

Overall Review: Linux support is provided only if you have a floppy drive and only for Suse, Fedora and RHEL. An Opensource driver is available on Highpoint's web site, but requires a manual kernel module build and install, which I could not get to work on my Debian box. Sad to say my 2 new SATA devices are useless... Didn't know how to rate the purchase so gave it "half" since in all fairness it probably works fine, just not for me.

Pros: It was a fairly cheep upgrade that works very well

Cons: So far none