




Bring new life to any old desktop PC with the SYBA SY-PCI40010 4 Channels PCI Serial ATA II Raid Host Controller Card. It adds up to four SATA II 3.0Gbps ports to your computer, allowing you to connect up to four hard disk drives to your system. It supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD for maximum performance and data integrity. Plus, it supports plug-and-play and hot plug functions.
Details:
• Silicon Image SIL3124 Serial ATA (SATA2) Host Controller Chipset
•Supports PCI Bus-master Access
•Supports Plug & Play and Hot Plug
•Silicon Image SIL3124 Serial ATA (SATA2) Host Controller Chipset
•Compliant with Serial ATA II Specification, the Extension of SATA 1.0a Revision 1.1
•Compliant with Gen2i, Gen2m SATA II Electrical Specification Revision 1.0
•Backward Compatible to SATA 1.0 Specification
•Supports Native Command (NCQ), Port Multiplier, First Party DMA
•RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 JBOD Function Supported
•Supports Windows 8 (Uses Windows 7 Driver), and Windows Server 2012 (Uses Windows Server 2008 driver)
•Hardware RAID Array Maximum size: 2.3TB; Except for JBOD mode.
Notes:
•The port# is listed in order.
JP3 = port 0
JP4 = port 1
JP5 = port 2
JP6 = port 3
Pros: Works like a champ with Debian and a stock 2.6.26 kernel. I am not using on-board raid though. 4 ports.
Cons: This is plain PCI interface, so don't expect 4 drives to win any speed contests. Only ships with 2 SATA cables (non-latching).
Overall Review: Too soon to tell if performance is enhance with NCQ features. Once I have all my new drives swapped into the linux RAID5 array I will try to post again with more feedback.