PCI SATA II Add-On Card

[daphatgrant]

I'm am putting together an HTPC from an old system I have and am going to need to replace the old 40gb HDD that's currently in it. With IDE getting rather old I can't see myself buying anymore IDE drives so I am looking at a few SATA II drives, (2) Seagate 500gb HDD's (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148136) to be specific. My issue is that the motherboard (http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=P4MAM2-V) in which I am going to use does not have any on-board SATA ports so an add-on card is required. Does anyone have any suggestions for an SATA add-on card? This system also has no PCI-E so that is also a limiting factor.

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Cliff Notes:
I need a PCI SATA II add-on card
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*I am currently looking at this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102061), any thoughts?

Thanks for any input :D

[protias]

I remember someone saying Promise does not have consistant results and they drivers/firmware are not the best.

[drizzt81]

make sure that there are working (?) drivers available for the OS you are planning to use.