SYBA SD-ATA133I PCI IDE Ultra Controller Card (Non RAID)

Pros: This Silicon Image-based PCI-IDE controller card had no problems with recognizing optical drives on it. It operated the UDMA-4 drives perfectly without any problems and didn't conflict with on-board IDE controllers.

Cons: Not all optical drive brands will operate in their maximum supported transfer rate. Any drive that is not UDMA-4 will only run in Multimode DMA mode, irregardless if UDMA-2 mode is supported by the drives.

Overall Review: Newegg was fast in getting the package to me.

Pros: it works pretty good i'd had to go to windows update to install the drivers but it doing the job dvd/cd-r burner hook up to it

Cons: cd it comes with has to many different products on it and not enough information with it on the product but once i'd downloaded the drivers it seem to work

Pros: Cheap, performance is ok.

Cons: Drivers.

Overall Review: The drivers on the cd caused BSOD errors consistently. I had to download the latest at Syba's website to get it working properly. Once this was done it works great.

Pros: I needed to this card to install a 500 GB IDE drive on a 6 year old ASUS motherboard equipped PC. I boot from a SCSI HD using an Adaptec controller. So the only trick was where to install this card. My first guess, in a slo9t after the SCSI card was wrong. The machine would not boot and instead tried to boot from the HD attached to this card. I siwitched them around so that this card is in earlier slot and the Adaptec card in a later slot and it worked fine. The machine booted from the SCSI drive, Windows found and isntalled the proper drivers from the included CD. The new HD was found, recognized and works great. The price was sweet, and the card supports both the new 500GB drive and a Pioneer DVD burner. Both work well.

Cons: None come to mind.

Overall Review: From the factory this card is packed in a small box. It arrived from Newegg in a HUGE box filled with peanuts. Bah. I do not like the Newegg shipping policy. This should not have been packed in a large box and shipping should not have been $5. Bah twice. Give us a lower cost option Newegg, and don't bother to rebox an already boxed product for shipment. Please.

Pros: Worked great after trying other brands. After installation, I changed up drives and put two DVD-RW's on this and made my hard drive solitary and it didn't flinch at the change,everything worked well.

Cons: Check my thoughts below.

Overall Review: Install can be tricky, does not have auto-install program. At first boot, just ignore the "F3" prompt to go into the configuration and once in windows just insert the driver disc, find your model number (on the box cover) find the FIRST drivers folder and then your OS. This is the path you need for the add new devide wizard to find the correct driver.

Pros: dirt cheap, funny little driver cd

Cons: didn't work. with devices connected, it would freeze boot sequence and it wouldn't pass POST. MB GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 P965 775 is my mobo from newegg.

Overall Review: it seems to work for many others so I have it a shot. i will just return it and try another

Pros: Works with Linux out of the box. Hasn't given me any troubles with three hard drives attached.

Cons: none

Pros: Straight forward manual. Syba's responsive customer support.

Cons: The card is not fully functional in my Asus P3V4X mainboard. Tried all possible things: different PCI slots, flashed to the most up-to-date BIOS. Syba's customer support representative confirmed this card model has conflicts with some Asus mainboards, including P3V4X and suggested requesting RMA. Thus low rating.

Overall Review: Newegg's shipping was swift, as usual.