SATA PCI Card
Looking to add a cheap SATA PCI card (4 port internal SATA, no external SATA) to my system; I saw a bunch on Newegg for anywhere between 30 to 50 dollars (US)... I'm not looking for a RAID controller, just looking to add a few SATA drives and a SATA optical drive. Any suggestions on the manufacturer I should go with? I'm leaning towards Rosewill HERE or Siig HERE ... Any input would be appreciated!
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Last edited by Roadkill203; 01-25-2010, 08:30 PM. -
Re: SATA PCI Card
I have a Silicon Image 3114 card in my backup file server. It's nothing special, but it works fine. I forget which brand it is, but most of them are pretty much the same.
Just be aware that it won't give you anywhere close to the performance of an integrated chip set or PCIe controller. The PCI bus is the limiting factor. I also don't know if it supports optical drives, I've never tried.
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