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Newlink PCI ATA133 RAID Controller Card W/Cable - Retail Box
- £7.65ex vat
- £8.99inc vat
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- manufacturer #: NLATA133 - RAID
- quickfind code: 60610
- 19 in stock for next day delivery.
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Good ATA133 Card For Linux
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LinuxUsed with Fedora Core 2 (kernel 2.6.5-1.358) as a plain ATA133 IDE controler card over the past month with no problems. Chipset reported by kernel as SiI680, I've not used it with builtin raid but works well under linux software raid.
Good value, easy to setup and cheap
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LinuxI bought this recently, not for its RAID ability, but to add more hard drives to my system. It runs well under Gentoo Linux (2.6 kernel) and does exactly what it says. I haven't tested the RAID functions though, so can't comment on that.
If only ebuyer's delivery was better, most online stores offer one or two day as standard, ebuyer charge you extra if you want it that quick - a bit poor IMO.
Great product
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Windows XPIt arrived on time (as usual from ebuyer) and it was in a nice box similar to those that MSI use. The contents of the box included: the card (obviously) in a bubble wrap pouch, 2 pale green IDE cables, a driver cd for all windows drivers and a manual. Everything you need!... apart from maybe those expensive new drives you'll be attaching to it.
I stuck the card in a free PCI slot and jammed one of the cables in the card and one in a CDRW I had lying around and powered up and straight away my bios picked up an 'extension' for setting up the raid. Windows loaded and found my new hardware, I put the CD in and everything installed within seconds. Sorted.
New Link
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LinuxThis card has now been substituted from the original sil-680 ebuyer to a New Link ITE based card and is no longer suitable for most Linux.. The reviews for Linux use are not applicable to this card. THe picture is still of the original card not the New Link card. I did submit negative reviews, when they shipped the Newlink card before they changed the description and Mfr #. but they have never appeared on the reviews. So I am making this a positive rating - that way we will all be saved the problems of having to do RMA's. I did try out the product and it wouldn't detect the drives and the Appliance type Linux I use does not respond well to changing drivers.
Great Card
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Windows XPPurchased this for a customer with an PC CHIPS M848ALU mainboard with 5 devices.
Installed within 5 mins, no problems - not only does raid but has an ATA controller built in so it can support individual HDD's and CDROMS etc.
BUY IT!!!!
Recommended SI 0680 card for Amiga one users
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OtherIf you are looking for a SI0680 card to use with Amiga One computers this good value card has proved to be an excellent solution for me. It comes with two cables as well.
Fantastic Card
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OtherI've installed this in a Windows Server 2003 (Standard) box.
I have two drives hanging off it's primary channel configured as RAID0, this is the boot & system partition for the OS. (Drivers are on CD, must be copied onto a floppy before you install the OS if you want to RAID your boot/system partition).
The other channel has 2x 80Gb disks, with a further 80Gb disk on the mobo IDE. These are configured as software RAID5
The card's bios gives options to configure the card and attached disks. It's really easy to create a RAID0 or RAID1 system/boot partition (or just a hardware data partition). The manual (sheet of paper) says it will do RAID0+1 too.
Definately a 5* for this. Highly recommended.
For anyone seeking more info on this card, the model number is SD-SIL680-RAID. Google is your friend!
The only thing this card can't do is hardware RAID5, but if you want that, you will need to pay much more than a tenner!
Smart disk
This RAID card does NOT support smart disk and I haven't found one that does, apart from that it is still all singing and dancing...except for the fact that on my ASUS K8V board I lose my sata raid array completely, not sure if this is a problem with my board though (worst board I've had in a long time but only to be expected with the new 64 bit yet). Hope this helps.
Great value for money
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Not ApplicableI've set this card up with 2 120GB Hard drives and created a mirror. Works perfectly and the RAID set recovered with no problems when I pulled the power plug on one of the Hard drives testing it out.
It comes with a nice GUI tool which I was not expecting for £9.99!
GREAT CARD!
great, just reviewing it!
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Not ApplicableThis card is ACE, like iain harrison said does exsactly what it says on the TIN. Can't go wrong if you need more ide slots.
5 STAR!
