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HomeStorage DevicesDrive ControllersSerial ATA Drive Controllers1 Esata/ 3SATA II RAID5/JBOD Pci Controller |
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4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 I sort of had to buy this to get my Port Multiplier from Addonics to work.... Aug 03, 2008
By Lemot66
I had purchased a Port Multiplier also from Addonics so I could connect up to 5 SATA hard drives at 500GB each. What I didn't know before I bought that is that MOST (according to the condescending Addonics tech support guy) motherboards are not compatible with port multipliers so I would need an additional Host Controller to get it to work. So after begrudgingly forking over another $80 for this controller, I can now get my 5 hard drives up and running by connecting my port multiplier to this. It also supports various RAID configurations, which is what I'm using it for.
This model, the ADSA3R5-e was the one he recommended me to buy, and it does its job fine. It fits into a regular PCI slot with 1 external port and 3 internal ones.
I'm not an expert by any means at this stuff, but I managed to figure it out eventually. If you happen to be reading this and are considering adopting port multiplier technology, maybe learn from my mistake and not assume that you won't need a special host controller like this one...because chances are you will.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Great with internal and external drives Mar 02, 2010
By Tw5000
Picked this up for two purposes: to speed up a RAID1 setup over Windows 2003 software RAID, and to access an eSATA external drive. Used with a much older server that only had IDE and PCI. The hardware RAID1 provided by the card with two 500 GB SATA drives was 4x faster than the software RAID provided by Windows 2003 on two similar IDE drives. The controller also worked perfectly with an external 1 TB eSATA drive. Well worth the cost of the controller for speeding up/enhancing an older system setup.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Fast and works Jan 25, 2010
By J. Shuler
Installed into an old system beside a SCSI LVD card in Win2k, loaded up new RAID-1 with no problem on two new drives. There was some learning curve, unlike industrial strengh raid controllers the volumes you configure in card bios (legacy) are different than those created with software raid configuration utility. PROTIP: you need the bios version to boot the drives.
Reinstalled winxp no problem after discovering booting issue and recopying data to get rid of old storage. So far, quick and reliable. Rebuilt the volume 1 time after i hard booted it, it's not server grade but works fine for the house.
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