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AMCC 3ware® 9650SE-4LPML 9650SE4LPMLKIT Serial

$429.00 Est. at Amazon

from klaynaxis, www.shopping.com
I decided to purchase these based on the fact that upgrades are painful, and using an external RAID controller would eliminate the need to continuously reinstall if I changed my hardware.
from www.amazon.com
You will not be able to do that with a 3WARE controller.
from www.amazon.com
look it up on the AMCC web site.
from mcclurken, www.newegg.com
Pros: 4 connectors and only uses pci-e x4 slot.
from LetDown, www.newegg.com
Pros: Cost, the Multi-lane SATA saves some space and makes things a bit more tidy.

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2 RECOMMENDED by 36 people for OVERALL

AMCC 9650SE-8LPMLSGL ATA Controller

AMCC (9650SE-8LPMLSGL) (9650SE-8LPMLSGL) ATA Controller

$658.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
As usual 3ware outdoes themselves -- an amazing controller that just works.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Pros: - supports most raid levels- supports most operating systems- card bios easy to use- good reviews, good alternative to the new ~$1000 SAS Raid cards
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Pros: A "Real" Raid Controller and it just works with Modern Linux out of the box.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Pros: Been with 3ware for 6 years now, they have yet to let me down.
from Jamie, www.newegg.com
Pros: Blazingly fast.

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3 RECOMMENDED by 63 people for OVERALL

AMCC 8506 8006-2lp kit ATA Controller

$733.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
Great SATA controller - there really is not much more to say.
from Koehlerb, www.newegg.com
Pros: Fast, cheap.
from BooBoo, www.newegg.com
Full hardware control 2 port RAID 0 or 1 (I Needed RAID 1 to replace a NetCell controller that is slow)
from squinky86, www.newegg.com
Pros: Upgraded a client's raid to hardware raid using this card.
from Dan, www.newegg.com
Pros: Easy to install.

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4 RECOMMENDED by 21 people for OVERALL

SIIG SC-SAER12-S1 Serial ATA Controller

$64.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
I have used many siig products throughout the years and they are definitely one of the best hardware mfg..
from www.amazon.com
In my old mobo i had only 4 SATA and 4 sata drives and a new SATA cd/dvd unit, bought this card to set my raid 0 and have some extra SATA ports.
from RW, www.newegg.com
Pros: Does exactly what both Newegg's and SIIG's product description and specifications for this product state!!!
from KireXion, www.newegg.com
Pros: Does what I wanted it to do.
from Alger, www.newegg.com
Other Thoughts: My existing XP system didn't find a driver so had load the provided driver making a floppy from the SIIG CD.

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5 RECOMMENDED by 88 people for OVERALL

Areca ARC-1210 Serial ATA Controller

$388.00 Est. at Amazon

from Webster, www.newegg.com
Pros: Areca supposedly makes good cards.
from robc1200, www.newegg.com
Pros: Lots of great specs on paper and lots of people saying tis fast heh...
from Evan, www.newegg.com
Cons: It is HIGHLY recommended that you discontinue the 'ARECA Controller Cards'.
from Webshark, www.newegg.com
Cons: Areca Support is awful..
from N/A, www.newegg.com
I don't!5) Tried several OS's: Linux (iso downloaded from areca website), Windows 32 bit slipstreamed to sp2 + f6 (real floppy not USB) and freebsd 6.2-beta.

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Addonics Serial ATA Controller

Addonics (ADSAIDE) Serial ATA Controller

$23.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
this product allows you to use a sata drive and load infomation and data through an ide interface.
from www.amazon.com
as an it professional, one of the services i provide is data recovery.
from www.amazon.com
i installed it and it worked, no issues or nothing i am not using my new 250gb maxtor hard drive!
from www.amazon.com
i used it to replace a failing series3 tivo hard drive (with instantcake) and it worked great.
from www.amazon.com
the connection to the sata card do not connect firmley.

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Highpoint Technologies RocketRAID 1520 Serial ATA

Highpoint Technologies RocketRAID 1520 (rocketraid 1520) Serial ATA Controller

$69.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
Comments: I actually purchased one of these elsewhere, but I am thinking of purchasing a second one to add a second mirrored drive set to a server.
from Zeke, www.newegg.com
Comments: I purchased the 1520 with two IDE converters(rocketheads) in 5/2003 to mirror two 40 GB drives.
from Archangel, www.newegg.com
Comments: I've had this card for a couple of weeks now.
from Matt, www.newegg.com
The release note says it supports FreeBSD up to 5.1, so I'm wondering if the later FreeBSD has enough support to run this controller.
from Dan, www.newegg.com
Comments: Perfect card for RAID 1.

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Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 Serial ATA Controller

$130.00 Est. at Amazon

from Benji, www.newegg.com
Pros: - 8 ports- Inexpensive for a non-hardware RAID card- Comes with a low-profile bracket- Fast when used in a PCI-X expansion slot- Works in a PCI slot, but at reduced speed
from bryan, www.newegg.com
Pros: 0
from CyberDyneSystems, www.newegg.com
First, the driver CD I received from Supermicro included the aforementioned Marvell drivers (unsigned) that worked flawlessly with an XP64 installation in my case.
from Bad Syntax, www.newegg.com
Pros: 8 port sata card for $100, what more can you ask for?Since its running on its own chipset the drives are faster than most onboard chipsets.
from Yel, www.newegg.com
Pros: 8 SATA ports for an extremely low price.

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SYBA SD-SA2PEX-1E1I Serial ATA Controller

SYBA SD-SA2PEX-1E1I (SD-SA2PEX-1E1I) Serial ATA Controller

$21.00 Est. at Amazon

from b, www.newegg.com
Pros: Been working since day one for almost a year.
from Caz, www.newegg.com
Pros: Card works fine...
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Pros: Drivers for Windows 7 x64 available on Windows Update.
from alexsash, www.newegg.com
Pros: Easy install, no problems whatsoever.
from Fremen93, www.newegg.com
Pros: Easy installation, worked perfectly out of the box.

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SIIG SC-SAE512-S1 Serial ATA Controller

$64.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
once the right drivers are in the kernel (i compile my own...not sure whether or not they're in most prebuilt kernels), it just works when you put the card in.
from www.amazon.com
just got this card and inserted it into my laptop (running windows 7 beta) and it found and installed the card perfectly.
from www.amazon.com
i did not find the problems of other reviewers who reported needing to reboot when idle.
from www.amazon.com
seagate 7200.10 320gb sata hard drive, in an azio corp.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
no sata device plugged into this card works with this card.

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Sonnet Tempo Serial Ata

$84.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
It has been around since 2003/2004 and is a great sata controller card.
from www.amazon.com
returned it the 2nd time and got this sonnet card, which works w/o issue!
from www.amazon.com
This card includes 1 SATA drive cable, 1 SATA power cord, and the screws needed to hold 1 hard drive in place.
from www.amazon.com
I could have just bought regular ATA drives.
from www.amazon.com
I have a mac and the card intermitently cuts out and losses the drive I have connected to it.

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Highpoint Technologies Rocket 133 ATA Controller

$32.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
Bought this to run a couple of ide dvd drives; it only works for hard drives.
from DarkTIde, www.newegg.com
I put in this card to replace my motherboards older ATA66, so I could put a faster Hard Drive in.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Got the latest drivers from HighPoint and installed into a running copy of Win XP Pro.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Comments: Great product.
from bdub, www.newegg.com
anyhow, after initial problems, i downloaded latest drivers from highpoint, turned the system off, then pulled the hdd's off the card.

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Areca 2-Port PCIe x1 to SATA RAID Controller

$189.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
If your goal is a true hardware RAID1 mirror, and motherboard provides just a PCI Express X1 interface (not X4, and not even X2) then there are not that many options available - I could identify just two, 3Ware 9650SE-2LP and this ARC1200 card from A...
from malice101, www.newegg.com
Pros: Does what it's supposed to do.
from arsz, www.newegg.com
Areca site for compatible boards states that compatibility issues with consumer boards have been resolved except for slots intended for use with VGA.
from Raybo, www.newegg.com
Pros: Easy setup, running RAID 0.
from Fluid, www.newegg.com
Areca makes super-fast RAID cards.

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Adaptec 31205 2252400-R Serial ATA Controller

$862.00 Est. at Amazon

from Sakamoto, www.newegg.com
If not, your best bet is probably to go grab the latest Storage Manager software for the 5 series HBA's from the Adaptec's web site (say like for the 51245 HBA).
from DasTweaker, www.newegg.com
Pros: Extremely easy setup and install.
from Vlad, www.newegg.com
When I checked temperatures in Adaptec utility it constantly showed 61-64 C, which is above normal, specified for this card(51C max).
from N/A, www.newegg.com
The included software is as you might expect from Adaptec, brief and too the point.
from sixscrews, www.newegg.com
Pros: Great bandwidth - over 150 MB/s random read AND write to RAID5 (4 x Seagate 320 GB ST3250410AS),

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SYBA Low Profile PCI-Express 2x SATA II Raid card

$18.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
Cons: -Only 2 ports-The Bios GUI is really lacking and I feel sorry for anyone who uses two 2 TB hard drives and only wants to raid the first tb, you get to scroll from 2000gb to 1000gb VERY SLOWLY.-Instructions are lacking on all ends (Syba, Si...
from agaharikan, www.newegg.com
(newegg should have a warehouse around the corner)can be used in normal cases (just remove the bracket)Slicon image have a new bios update in their website which lets you update the bios within windows.
from nick, www.newegg.com
Cons: Low Profile...
from Catman, www.newegg.com
Other Thoughts: Once I downloaded drivers from Silicon Image and got the darn thing working, it's just fine (so far).
from RadicalxMind, www.newegg.com
Cons: Only 2 more SATA ports and not 4...

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Tekram Areca ARC-1220 Serial ATA Controller

$523.00 Est. at Amazon

from Muad'Dib, www.newegg.com
I was working in Windows 2000 which required a F6 to load a SCSI driver but the disk I got from ARECA doesn't tell you how to find these files.
from Bighead278, www.newegg.com
Other Thoughts: In my Abit IP35 Pro motherboard, the controller would hang with the message "Waiting for RAID Controller F/W to become ready".
from kmiteff, www.newegg.com
Pros: Hardware based RAID; was able to support uncompressed 1080i 60 HD playback seamlessly on only 4 drives; documentation is thorough and in-depth; Feature rich product; no problems; great performer
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Pros: Blazing I/O in Raid 5.
from BigTex, www.newegg.com
Pros: I was concerned with the compatibility with Win 7.

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StarTech.com PEX2IDE

$30.00 Est. at Amazon

from krzysd, www.newegg.com
Pros: does do pcie 1x to ide
from Buffalo, www.newegg.com
Pros: Easy install, vista saw it the first time
from jcc, www.newegg.com
Pros: Easy to install, all my ide hard drives work very well.
from PDXgrlGeek, www.newegg.com
Pros: Easy to use, installed in x1 PCIe slot, booted to OS, worked without drivers in XP and Vista
from N/A, www.newegg.com
Pros: Extra IDE port that supports 2 devices

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Addonics ATA Converter 605242954885 Serial

$23.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i used the product on two maxtor ide drives and installed them in a compaq presario sr450f running vista home premium with sata interfaces.
from www.amazon.com
if you have an ide drive, either disc media or hard drive, and you don't have any ide ports on your motherboard, then this product is your answer.
from www.amazon.com
on a pc with xp media center edition sp2, the system freezes when it comes out of standby or hard drive shut down.
from www.amazon.com
i attached it to my older western digital ide hard drive, plugged it into the second sata slot on the motherboard, and poof, nothing.
from www.amazon.com
i tried this to connect an ide western digital wd800jb drive to a dell dimension 9100.

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Promise SATA300 TX4 4-Port SATA PCI Adapter

$177.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
Check the mobo compatability list before you buy this.
from www.amazon.com
I purchased the controller for my linux file server.
from Red over White, www.newegg.com
Comments: Works flawlessly.
from Beofres, www.newegg.com
Cons: SATA II is 3.0Gbps, and you have four ports.
from Mook, www.newegg.com
Pros: Adds a lot more room to add to a basic computer that you buy from a manufacturer.

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ARC-1120 Serial ATA Controller

$536.00 Est. at Amazon

from chadpengar, www.newegg.com
Pros: Fast, easy to use and runs on Solaris 10 (x86/64) and FreeBSD.
from Ray, www.newegg.com
Pros: Has 256MB DDR333 ECC, good manual, and a nice BIOS & HTTP Configuration Utility.
from Yackety-Yak, www.newegg.com
Pros: I am using this card with Fedora Core 6.
from Ray, www.newegg.com
Pros: I can't offer much praise for this product, it's lacking in several areas.
from Todd, www.newegg.com
Only problem where to put 1.9 tb of data that I'll need to restore to a new controller, yikes.

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Storage Controllers

Best Storage Controllers Overall

AMCC 3ware® 9650SE-4LPML 9650SE4LPMLKIT Serial

AMCC 9650SE-8LPMLSGL ATA Controller

AMCC 8506 8006-2lp kit ATA Controller

SIIG SC-SAER12-S1 Serial ATA Controller

Areca ARC-1210 Serial ATA Controller

Addonics Serial ATA Controller

Highpoint Technologies RocketRAID 1520 Serial ATA

Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 Serial ATA Controller

SYBA SD-SA2PEX-1E1I Serial ATA Controller

SIIG SC-SAE512-S1 Serial ATA Controller

Sonnet Tempo Serial Ata

Highpoint Technologies Rocket 133 ATA Controller

Areca 2-Port PCIe x1 to SATA RAID Controller

Adaptec 31205 2252400-R Serial ATA Controller

SYBA Low Profile PCI-Express 2x SATA II Raid card

Tekram Areca ARC-1220 Serial ATA Controller

StarTech.com PEX2IDE

Addonics ATA Converter 605242954885 Serial

Promise SATA300 TX4 4-Port SATA PCI Adapter

ARC-1120 Serial ATA Controller

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