Installing a PCI SATA card?

[Angry_Birds]

Hey everybody,

If I were to get something like this, would it literally be a matter of installing the card, connecting the drives, and then once I power back on they would show up in Disk Management?

Obviously there might be drivers to install if W7 doesn't have them built-in, but I'm not missing anything key, right?

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0314612

 

[drescherjm]

That should work provided it has drivers for your OS. Do you really have a computer without a PCIe slot?

 

[Angry_Birds]

Well I have a PCI-e 1x slot and a PCI slot in an old Optiplex that I've repurposed. The computer is used exclusively for backups, so the I/O speed limitation presented by the PCI slot is not a huge deal.

Do you think it would make sense to get a PCI-e 1x card instead of PCI?

 

[Red Falcon]

Well I have a PCI-e 1x slot and a PCI slot in an old Optiplex that I've repurposed. The computer is used exclusively for backups, so the I/O speed limitation presented by the PCI slot is not a huge deal.

Do you think it would make sense to get a PCI-e 1x card instead of PCI?

If you can afford it, then yes, go for the PCI-E 1x card.
Otherwise the PCI version will work just fine as long as you don't need the throughput.

 

[Aesma]

SiI chip is a safe bet, personally I got two kinds of cheap PCI SATA cards with other chips and they never worked. I don't know why they would call it "6-port" when you can only use 4 at a time.

If there is a cheap PCIe 1X 4 port card available, I would definitely take that.

 

[Red Falcon]

I don't know why they would call it "6-port" when you can only use 4 at a time.

Marketing.

 

[Old Hippie]

I don't know why they would call it "6-port" when you can only use 4 at a time.

Well, it does have 6 ports.