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SATA PCI Controllers

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fishdiggy

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Does anyone here have any experience with SATA PCI controller cards? I'm buying one paired with a 36GB Raptor to try to extend the life of my old machine (it's old enough that it doesn't have SATA ports on the motherboard).

Here's the one I'm considering (mainly because it's cheap).
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This card has a Silicon Image chipset, which seems to be the chipset on almost every controller card I could find.

The RAID function is of no consequence. My question is, will a cheap card have lesser performance than a "name-brand" (like Adaptec) card? I'd hate to buy a screaming-fast hard drive and pair it up with a dud controller. Thanks for the input.
 
Buslink 2 Port Internal + 2 Prot Extenal SATA RAID PCI Card

they cant even spell the name of the product right....lol
honestly i dont know if you'll have any problems or not...do some research on it...my thing is you get what you pay for you know..
 
The 36GB Raptor is a waste of money. A 7200RPM drive like the Maxtor DiamondMax10 w/ 16MB buffer or Hitachi 7K250 will perform faster or at least on par with the WD360GD, and get you quite a few more gigs for the same amount of money. A Seagate won't be significently slower, nets you the same five year warranty, and once again, quite a few more gigs.

However, there is not going to be any significant performance bottleneck, especially in a SLED environment, in a SATA host between brands, except possibly in CPU usage. However, if Disk CPU usage makes or breaks a system, then it needs to be retired from that application anyway.
 
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