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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Great RAID controller! Oct 08, 2005
By Kyle J. Morin
I've got the ADST114 RAID controller hooked up to 4 SATA drives on my home server, and have had no problems at all; everything works just as it should. Installation was a breeze. Note if you are using new drives most likely you'll need to format them. You can do this by going to start and hitting run, then typing in "%SystemRoot%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s", clicking storage, then diskmanagement. Quality RAID controller.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
ADDONICS SATA 4-PORT RAID CONTROLLER ( ADST114 ) Jul 12, 2005
By I. Masdooq
This card delivers what it promises. I used it to connect my two SATA-150 80GB hard drives on stripping. For the note one HD is Maxtor and the other is Seagate. It works like a breeze. I have used it for a month now and haven't had any problems yet. I use it for HD intensive gaming (DOOM3, HL-2, Area 51, Vampire-Blood lines and the king of all FAR CRY). This setup has give me additional performance in terms of video editing as well. I recommend this card for anybody who is starting on RAID. The card is worth every penny.
Works right out of the box with Linux (Ubuntu) Mar 20, 2011
By Abdon Gonzalez
I have a Linux machine (Ubuntu Feisty). My biggest concern was that it would not work or that it would need proprietary drivers; if something fails down the road, having to hunt down drivers is one more annoyance during what would already be a pain in the @$$ process. Plugged it in, booted, and the two drives I attached to it were available.
First off, this is not the fastest SATA II, which is reflected on the price. As expected if you want a better card, you will need to pay extra for it.
Beware some expensive RAID cards that will not let you access the drives individually, or without extra drivers. Even if the card had hardware-based RAID, I rather create it as a Linux-native software-based RAID. If you use the card RAID and the card fails, you may not be able to read your perfectly fine disks without the exact same card (sometimes even an upgraded version of the same card is different enough to fail). If it is a software-based RAID, slap them into a computer by whatever means (as in a few on the internal motherboard SATA lots, a few on the external SATA slots, and a few on another SATA card) and the OS will be able to see and mount your RAID.
Great Product Sep 30, 2008
By Bruce G. Scheiman
I now own 3 of these. Two in one computer and one in the other. These have allowed me to use SATA hard drives. The support from the manufacturer was great.
1 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 SLOW... Oct 23, 2008
By MJ
I wanted to make file server so I bought Dell computer and 2 x 1.5GB hard disks and this RAID controller. Vista home premium was installed on Dell and I put this card and connected 2 hard disks as RAID 0 (mirror). It worked. But after installation, I tested the copy speed. It looked strange. It takes to long to copy the files. I changed several settings but it was still slow and about an hour later Vista reported that one of the disk is failing. At that time I found that Dell has RAID 0 function on board. I took out this controller and connected 2 disks to the mother board and set as RAID 0 (it only supports raid 0 - mirror). It works great. Much faster than this controller. In the future I may need another RAID controller to connect more disks because on board sata ports are full now. But I won't choose this one.
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