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Silicon Image 4-Port SATA PCI Expansion Card

Silicon Image 4-Port SATA PCI Expansion Card

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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Can work with Windows 7

    posted by jtrosario on 12/18/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    This controller card can be made to work with Windows 7 if you have the right drivers. And they do exist. I was then able to install Windows 7 as a new install onto a new SSD connected to this Silicon Image 4-Port PCI Expansion Card, also known as Silicon I...
    Cons:
    It only comes with drivers for Windows operating systems up to Windows XP, as well as other non-Windows operating systems.
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 3
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
    2 DXPoints
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    Working perfectly on Debian GNU/Linux

    posted by ghostDancer on 11/24/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Good price works flawlessly on a Debian GNU/Linux, if you have to add SATA ports to your computer and you use the Penguin OS run like hell from VIA chipsets, all kind of problems, but with Sil chipsets never have any.
    Cons:
    Everything working perfectly till now.
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
    2 DXPoints
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    Great 4-port SATA controller expansion

    posted by lyangsuper on 09/05/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    - Easy to install and use - contains two SATA cables, about 50 cm long - drivers are included - supports raid functionality - very cheap for a 4-port card - recognized my 2 TB drives without problems out of the box, 3 TB are not support as far as I know.
    Cons:
    - pci is really too slow for four harddisks, it works but don't expect stellar performance
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
    2 DXPoints
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    Indispensable

    posted by sangram on 08/18/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Worked out of the box with Windows 7 using the driver CD. Windows automatically discovered an update and installed it. Works perfectly with 2TB drives in the newer shipped cards. Needs no external power connector. Cheeeeeeap!
    Cons:
    SATA ports are a slight struggle to understand because of the open design. Overall speed is limited to 133 MB/s of the PCI slo...
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    good, cheap

    posted by Edreams on 02/06/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Pretty good, not the fastest card, but is great when you LVM stripe drives on Linux
    Cons:
    The connectors to the SATA are fragile, they are also not mounted well and can bend. One drop of ethyl cyanoacrylate (super glu...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 3
    • Usefulness: 5
    2 DXPoints
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    Good and surprisingly reliable

    posted by student69 on 03/01/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    I have been using 4 of these cards in a linux server for over a year now and they have performed flawlessly. I had to upgrade the firmware one at a time to begin with but once upgraded they accepted all kinds of drives.
    Cons:
    I did have an issue with one Seagate drive that was causing a kernel panic but that turned out to be the Seagate drive itself a...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
    2 DXPoints
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    Great add-in card for small data server

    posted by wiren on 02/21/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    - Speed and performance is great, according to SATA I standard - Looks pretty decent - Simple instalation - Most systems driver-free - 4 channels - All PCI compatible, ie 3V/5V - Support for up to 2GB harddrives - Perfect for a small, home data server
    Cons:
    - Multiple channel use simultaneously degrades the speed (ie you actively use (working on them) more than 2 harddrives at one t...
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Nice and cheap

    posted by glenn on 02/07/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    - Cheap - very well supported chipset
    Cons:
    - Does not handle large disks without firmware upgrade - Mine came in the wrong box, a box for another card. - Loses the RAID...
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 4
    2 DXPoints
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    Out of the box support for 750Gb drives is NOT the

    posted by Rusna on 01/08/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Great device that works out of the box BUT with a little tweak: At least mine arrived for a year ago with Silicon Image's old firmware that did not understand big hard drives, so I had to manually update the firmware, luckily I'm a geek so that was no iss...
    Cons:
    I had to update the firmware myself to gain support for big hard drives. This is no problem really since Silicon Image provides...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 3
    • Usefulness: 5
    2 DXPoints
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    cheep

    posted by bootshacker on 12/16/2010 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:less than 1 day

    Pros:
    it is cheap it comes with everything you will need to put it in install it in the computer expect the tools of course. it actually came in a box has a diver compact disk with it has two sata cables with it it is very good quality good thing to get...
    Cons:
    takes too long to get here support SATA1 only which is a mistype in the description I think. it should of came with four cabl...
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