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Extra Value Serial ATA 2 Port PCI Card
- £10.06ex vat
- £11.83inc vat
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- manufacturer #: NL-SATA
- quickfind code: 48670
- 35 in stock for next day delivery.
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Easy to set up and fast
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Not ApplicableATA 133 means that there is a maximum bandwith of 133MB per second.
SATA 150 means 150 MB/s
No hard disk drive can even come close to these figures, the fastest Hdd's push about 60 - 70 MB's.
SATA is a technology preparing for the future and will not give an improvement in speed at the moment.
Also the PCI bus speed of 33Mhz is not limiting.
Im not sure why you are trying to compare a bandwith with a clock speed, but the 2 have nothing to do with other. 33Mhz PCI can happily accomodate SATA 150 data rates.
Why pick this? Its future proofing your PC for starters.
SATA cables are much easier to work with than IDE cables.
Its damn cheap.
Its really easy to set up. Took me 15 mins to assemble. 2 mins to read the excellent installation instrustions. Fresh install of windows took 30 mins and it all worked first time.
Can use it to just plug in 2 normal hard drives or any SATA enabled device.
Also supports RAID 0 (striping, for increased performance) and RAID 1 (mirroring, for increased reliability).
If planning to use with Linux System read this.
If you plan to use Linux with this card you may experince a few issues.
Below I have offered a few suggestions that could get your Linux system working with this card.
I would do a bit of googling on "linux and sil3112" (chipset used by card) try including searches of above with your motherboard make and hdd make.
I used 1 x 160GB Western Digital Hard drive (at first)
waiting for second drive 2 turn up as i write this)
At first I encountered a few issues reporting Drive seek errors, screaming IRQ errors, Disabling IRQ 11(irq number maybe different on your system), and a few more. Varies on distro and bios settings!
I SOLVED the problems I had by modifying this setting on my gigabyte motherboard (AMIBIOS):
Chipset features setup -> "DRAM TIMING"
Top Performance: DISABLED
It appears the errors reported by linux could indicate that there is a memory timing issue with some systems and this card. (Windows XP no problem with the Top Performance enabled)
I got the system working on SLACKWARE 9.1 (Worked straight after install) Depending on system setup Mine was located at
/dev/hde (Pri Master / 1st drive on card)
/dev/hdg (Sec Master / 2nd drive on card)
(slackware 10.1 doesn't work straight away, but might be able to work if played about with)
It has been reported that Fedora Core 3 (FC3), Suse 9.x, redhat, and mandrake systems have got the card working too)
FC3 would be my 2nd choice, but I would recommend this choice with this sata card.
If you are thinking of using a Seagate Hard drive Please use google to do some background checking.
Hope this helps users of Linux!
Works well on Linux
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LinuxThe card received (January 2007) is very similar to the one pictured, except it's a low profile card with a standard bracket. The card has 2 SATA ports and NO parallel ATA, comes with one SATA cable.
The card has a Silicon Image SIL3512 RAID chip and is well supported in linux (kernel 2.6.17, Mandriva 2007). Onboard BIOS is rather basic but functional. Works well with two WD 320Gb drives in RAID-0.
Overall good product at a bargain price!
Fine.
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Windows XPSlotted it in and realised I had forgot to set the jumpers on my 300GB Seagate 7200.9 sata drive to sata 1.0 spec (it is sata 2 drive).
Booted it up all plugged in, windows recognised it and I installed the "r" drivers (assuming is raid). Rebooted and it worked straight away... you must go into administrative tools and computer managment in order to format it so it becomes visible on my computer.
So all in all *DOES* WORK WITH SEAGATE 300GB DRIVE EVEN WITHOUT CHANGING JUMPERS. Anyone who has had a problem probably didn't go and format it in management. Silly :)
Flawless victory.
Linux 64bit OK
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Linuxno problems here, I was worried that such a cheap card would have problems, it's all good.
sata card
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Windows XPNice card, comes with 1 sata cable and supports raid-0 and raid-1. No driver troubles, and transfer rates onto my new 200gig WD drive are good.
Works fine with Seagate 160GB
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Windows 98Working ok with a 160GB Seagate SATA (Quickfind 99773). I don't know if the card will autodetect SATA 2 and step it down automatically, so rather than mess about I dug out a jumper from my screws box and stuck in on the drive to force the lower data speed.
I used the raid driver as recommended by other customers (thanks!) and Seagate's excellent Disk Wizard, downloadable from their website. After copying my Windows XP image to the new drive I set the motherboard bios to boot scsi and it was all done. If you tell XP to upgrade the drivers it will find a later version than supplied on the web.
As to what I got, this seems to differ from earlier cards: the card has two SATA1 (150MB/s) ports and does not support IDE. It comes with a single SATA data cable and no Molex converter.
It's a steal for the price.
Works with Seagate 300GB
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Windows XPInstalled - plugged in single drive, loaded "r" drivers (out of the two - one had an R - probably signifying raid.
Only the Seagate 300GB 7200.9 plugged in - out of box - no alteration.
Went into Drive Management and formatted it so it could be seen in my computer, rebooted and worked fine.
People who are complaining about incompatability probably arn't formatting it as mentioned above.
WORKS WITH SEAGATE 300GB 7200.9
Good Card
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Not ApplicableBought this card a couple of months ago and have got 2 sata drives connected to it in RAID 0 .
Works perfectly, does what it`s supposed to.
The version I received is not green but red and has 2xSata and 1xIDE connectors on it.
Serial ATA Card on XP Media Center
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Windows XPI installed this card last night and was a bit worried about the drivers being compatible with Windows Media Center 2002 SP2. Simply told the Found New Hardware Wizard to check on line for drivers, and it did!! I am running it in my Shuttle XPC so I can back everything up and eventually run 1 big SATA hard drive and a SATA DVD-R/W on it and I have no worries about doing so with this card.
Well recommended.
