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4-port Serial ATA (SATA) II controller

Discussion in 'Windows Home Server' started by Mitch, Apr 6, 2009.

  1. Mitch

    Mitch Guest

    Hi,
    Can anyone recommend a good Serial ATA (SATA) II pci controller card for
    Windows 2003? Thanks.

    Mitch
     
    Mitch, Apr 6, 2009
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  3. Grant Taylor

    Grant Taylor Guest

    On 04/06/09 13:25, Mitch wrote:
    > Can anyone recommend a good Serial ATA (SATA) II pci controller card
    > for Windows 2003? Thanks.

    I've got a Promise FastTrak TX 4310 in a Windows 2003 that is doing ok.
    The ROM based utility is minimal (at best) but the Web (based) Promise
    Array Manager is decent.

    If you care, I'm running 2 500 GB SATA drives in a RAID 1 that is doing
    ok. (The RAID card did its job and kept the system running and booting
    when one of the drives failed.)

    I do consider this card to be a ""firmware (as opposed to hardware or
    software) RAID card as I believe it loads a driver and really uses the
    host CPU for it's RAID processing like a lot of the less expensive SATA
    RAID cards on the market.



    Grant. . . .
     
    Grant Taylor, Apr 6, 2009
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