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Good SATAII 3.0GB/S CONTROLLER

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Hello friends,
I am extremely newbie when it comes to storage. :rolleyes:
I want to install about 4 extra HD's to my system.
Can someone recommend me a good sata II 3.0g/s controller?
Let me know the difference between PCI and PCI-e.
Thank you all my mentors at [H].
:D
 
PCI: Parallel bus, "old" (est. mid 1990's), limited to a shared 133MiB/s between all devices on the bus. After overhead, a single device can get at most 120MiB/s.
PCI-e: PCI-express, "newer", point-to-point serial bus. Each device has its own, dedicated bandwidth. PCIe x1 is ~250MiB/s in each direction.

If you are planning to access all four HDDs at once, you are likely to saturate the PCI bus. I cannot recommend a controller with the given information. If you have no particular demands, I would recommend any Silicon Image (SiI) chipset based controller, since they are widely supported.
 
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