Sata Controller card

[cherrypik]

Would I notice a difference if I buy a controller card and run my hard drive through the PCI card instead of running it through the motherboard SATA controller?

 

[hity645]

An extra boot screen is all I noticed.

 

[Dark Ember]

With the current generation of drives, you shouldn't see a difference. Drives aren't fast enough to saturate a standard PCI bus, so you should be ok.

 

[defakto]

Everything else on the pci bus though could cause a performance decrease if you have alot of stuff on it already.

 

[J-Mag]

if hte drives are being used for storage and not your main OS partition then it is an acceptable solution. I have 10 SATA drives and I really dont care if 6 are running on the PCI bus, because the data isn't accessed all that often.