Vantec 6-Port SATA II 150 PCI Host Card with RAID

Vantec 6-Port SATA II 150 PCI Host Card with RAID

Regular Price: $31.99 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, JBOD and Individual modes Add SATA II 150 to your motherboard! Supports RAID! Provides 4 independent channels to support up to 4 Serial ATA devices Compliant with PCI Specification, Rev. 2.3, 32bit, 33/66Mhz Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

Customer Review

Great PCI SATA controller card
I originally used this card to add additional sata controllers for my PC, as my motherboard is older and only has four on board slots. It worked great, was easy to install and did exactly what I needed it to do with little to no effort. I ended up upgrading to Windows 7, only to find out that my mother board is not fully supported and my onboard sata controller did not have drivers for Windows 7 and gigabyte had no intentions of supporting Windows 7. I was able to move all of my hard drives over to this card and get back up and running, thanks to this purchase. It is now my primary sata controller and has been working for 8 months without one single issue. The eSata port is a great addition but it does use up an internal slot if you chose to use it. Still, the additional option is a great feature. If you are looking for a PCI SATA card - I would highly recommend this product. Price is great for the product that you get.
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September 11, 2010 (Tucson, AZ USA) | Helpful Votes: 27 | Rating: 5

Works
This card is based on the SIL3114 chip. I bought 2. Works with disks cards based on the older VIA chipset do not.Remember, though, 33mhz PCI tops out at 133MB/s. Putting more than 2 disks on the PCI bus is probably a mistake.
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November 19, 2010 | Helpful Votes: 21 | Rating: 5

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Vantec 6-Port SATA II 150 PCI Host Card w/RAID Top to learn more

VIA VT6421A 3-Port SATA and IDE PCI Controller Card w/RAID Support

Price with discount: $9.97 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Supports RAID 0, 1 0+1 and JBOD Supports Ultra DMA mode 6/5/4/6/2/1/0 Supports DMA mode 2/1/0 Supports PIO mode 4/3/2/1/0 VIA VT6421A SATA Raid Controller and IDE PCI Card General Features: VIA VT6421A chipset PCI interfac Supports three SATA and one PATA (IDE) hard disk drives Up to 150 Mbps data transfer rate Only SATA supports RAID Supports ATA 133 high performance hard disk drives Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

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XBOX 360 FLASHING POWERHOUSE
My MSI Motherboard was causing Windows 7 to Freeze and it was acting crazy everytime I would hook it to a SAMSUNG or LITEON Drive for the Xbox 360. But it would work okay for the BENQ's. I ordered this card a few days ago when I had trouble with a SAMSUNG Drive. I matched it up with the VIA Card on Xconsoles.com and this is a exact match.**FOR THE FLASHING GUYS**Despite what anyone says, this is the VIA Card that you need. Don't buy any SYBA Card!!! BUY THIS ONE!!! I didn't have to install the driver CD or anything. I have my 2nd Back-up HDD Plugged into the side port and I have a 34" SATA Cable plugged in the back port that Xecuter Recommends. Jungleflasher notices the drive almost immediatly and finally my computer doesn't act crazy anymore. If your using Windows 7 then this is a MUST-HAVE. Also allot of motherboards dont really work well with X360 Drives. I pulled out my old SYBA Raid card & popped this sucker in and it was PLUG&PLAY!If you Flash Xbox...
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July 21, 2011 (Columbus, Ohio) | Helpful Votes: 19 | Rating: 5

Real VT6421A Card
This is not the type of card you get to connect your high speed SSD or high capacity SATA drive. This is for connecting SATA DVD to a system without SATA controller, or out of SATA ports. It can also be used to replace broken Xbox 360 DVD drives. Works as advertised, no compatibility issues in all 3 of my systems, even in a docking station. Can't beat the price either.
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February 3, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 5

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VIA VT6421A 3-Port SATA and IDE PCI Controller Card w/RAID Support Top to learn more

Syba SD-SATA-4P Serial ATA150 4x Ports RAID Controller Card with SIL3114 Chipset - Retail

Regular Price: $85.99 |

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Customer Review

working good so far
Installed it a few days ago and it's working fine. Leaflet "manual" that comes in the box had the 32 bit driver folder name wrong but I let the install wizard pick and it runs. (has drivers for 32 and 64 bit installs). It was a little tough to snap into the PCI socket but went in solid with some pushing. My 1TB WD Caviar Green is running through the card and no probs.
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March 2, 2010 (ashtabula, oh) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 5

cheap Ubuntu SATA raid card
Using this card in Ubuntu 10.10. Works out of the box. I have 4x500GB drives. I'm sharing with XBMC using Samba. Works great.
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December 21, 2010 | Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 5

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Syba Pci Sata Soft Raid 4Ch Sil Sata 4-Channel Software Raid 32 Top to learn more

Works great, no problems
I have only had the card for a short time but so far so good.The card is currently installed in Ubuntu 9.10 system and works fine.
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April 11, 2010 (Smyrna, GA United States) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 4

Vantec 4+1 SATA II 300 and PATA PCI-E Combo Host Card with RAID

Regular Price: $27.99 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD and individual modes Supports Serial ATA Generation 2(SATA II) transfer rate up to 3.0 Gbps Compliant with one-lane 2.5Gbps PCI Express specification Supports SATA & PATA devices 2 Channel 4 port SATA/eSATA and 1 channel 1 port PATA Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

Customer Review

Works fine under Windows, but not compatible with OSX.
Item shipped quickly and installed easily. Despite Windows claiming to have installed the necessary drivers, I found it still necessary to install the drivers on the disc. After that, all drives connected to the card were recognized and performed properly.Only problem for me is that I dual boot OSX and expected it to be compatible with OSX as well. The item description here didn't indicate it wouldn't be. I've had to send it back because of this. But if my only need was for it to work in Vista/7, it seems perfect. I don't knock off any points for it not being able to work with OSX...but it is important to point out and I hope Amazon updates their item description with clarification on exactly what OSes it will work with. Namely:Windows 2000/98/XP/Vista/7No OSX. No Linux.
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February 8, 2011 (Ann Arbor, MI USA) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 5

Perfect...
I needed a hardware RAID solution for a system that I was going to build for my sister... I honestly spent more time deliberating over which RAID controller to use than the two 1.5TB drives that would be attached to it!Installing win7 using this controller was cake. The cd contains all of the drivers necessary. Huge kudos to the Microsoft team for making an OS installation so much easier... anyway, the raid controller is extremely easy to setup, before loading the OS you hit keystrokes to enter into the raid configuration utility, very intuitive and easy to configure (much like server hardware raid controllers).I opt'd for a mirror... the OS installed quick, and I was excited to see how much throughput i could push. After purchasing a POS RAID controller from fry's, I know a thing or two about bad RAID controllers. anyway, I am averaging over 32MB/sec on a file transfer!I'd buy this product again.
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November 6, 2010 (USA) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

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Vantec 4+1 SATA II 300 & PATA PCI-E Combo Host Card w/RAID Top to learn more

4 SATA ports, but only two active at a time!
I just received this unit. I have not yet installed it. However, one point which was not clear to me is that although there are four SATA ports, two internal and two external, only two of the ports can be active at a time. The internal ports are called CON1 and CON2. The external ports are called CON3 and CON4. The card comes with 8 jumpers. CON1 and CON2 are jumpered active. To activate CON3, you must switch 4 of the jumpers, which deactivate CON1. The same is done to switch between CON2 and CON4. My __guess__ is that the four jumpers switch the four data lines between the CON{1,2} and CON{3,4} ports. I don't know why the 4 jumpers are not a single jumper block. I don't know what would happen if you did not switch all 4 of the jumpers in a given set. Most likely, nothing nice.I will try to remember to update this review when I actually install the card. But I expect, based on the other two reviews, that I will be very satisfied with it. I am using it with an external SATA...
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December 4, 2010 (Dallas, TX) | Helpful Votes: 14 | Rating: 4

PCI to SATA / IDE (2 SATA / 2 PATA) Combo RAID Controller Card - VT6421A (Manufacturer Part # SY-VIA-150R)

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Supports hard disk drives larger than 137 GB (48-bits LBA) Upgrade your system by expanding two extra internal Serial ATA (SATA) ports, 1 internal Parallel ATA port with this Plug and Play PCI controller card Supports two SATA + two PATA hard drives Supports ATA 133 high performance hard disk drives Only SATA supports RAID Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

Customer Review

This purchase was a good experience.
I had a newer motherboard with only one IDE header and had 3 IDE devices on my computer. I purchased this item, turned the computer off, opened the case and installed the adapter and connected the third device (a ZIP drive). I restarted the computer and windows recognized the device and installed the driver. That was all there was to it. I tested to make sure that the drive was working properly and closed up the case and all has been well since. Shipping time and price for this component were both excellent!Was a bit confusing that the adapter was shown as "(2 sata/2 pata)". While it can power two pata (IDE) devices through a duplex ribbon, the write-up made one think that it had two pata (IDE) headers. Photographs were not of a high enough resolution for the buyer to be certain of this issue and the product description did not make it clear. Other than this one issue that did not affect me, the whole experience was excellent.
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August 18, 2010 (Rossville, GA, US) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

Does exactly what I need it to do to add a spare drive
All I needed was something that would allow me to add an extra 160GB IDE HDD to my Windows 7 system for program files installs. After I installed and fired up the machine, detection was transparent. I had to pop open the Computer window to check. There it was, ready for use. Painless. As far as SATA and RAID functionality, it will be years before I need the SATA connections and I'll probably never configure a RAID. So, if just need to add your trusty old IDE drive(s) with your Windows 7 box, this is the guy.***UPDATE***No problems working with the PATA drive attached, but when I added two SATA DVD drives, I would get the blue screen after every other startup/restart and puke out a vsmraid.sys error. Restarting in safe mode before going into a normal restart gets you back in, but I guess it doesn't like having both types of devices (SATA/PATA) connected at the same time. No biggie. I moved the SATA cables to the available spots in the system board and all is...
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June 18, 2011 (ca) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

Product Description

Upgrade your system by expanding two extra internal Serial ATA (SATA) ports, 1 internal Parallel ATA port with this Plug and Play PCI controller card. Supports two SATA + two PATA hard drives. Only SATA supports RAID. Supports ATA 133 high performance hard disk drives. Supports hard disk drives larger than 137 GB (48-bits LBA). Top to learn more

Second SATA connection for RAID only
I had bought this to add two SATA hard drives to my computer, under the impression that this would support both. But it turns out that while you can connect two SATA drives to this card, the second drive will ONLY work decently as a RAID drive. If you use them as two independent, non-RAID hard drives, the second drive will be very, VERY slow, around 5mb/s versus the first drive's tested 97mb/s. So if you've purchased this to add two SATA drives to your system and are experiencing a very slow hard drive, this is likely why. This only supports one SATA drive at full speed, and the second is essentially RAID-only.Two stars have been removed for there being no clarity on this provided anywhere by the manufacturer. An hour of internet sleuthing and finally testing and purchasing a different add-on card confirmed my suspicions. Otherwise, if you do need a RAID card, this works very well. Easy installation, the drivers are easily accessible on the internet, and the one SATA drive...
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September 10, 2011 (Chicago, IL) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 3

IO Crest 2 Port SATA III PCI-Express x1 Card (SY-PEX40039)

Regular Price: $20.99 |

Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Supports Hot Plug and Hot Swap Supports Port Multiplier ASM1061 Chipset (Asmedia 1061 SATA Host Controller) Supports Communication Speeds of 6.0Gbps, 3.0Gbps, and 1.5Gbps Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

Customer Review

Satisfied customer with a quality product
Let me give a little background. I originally bought a Crucial M4 64GB SSD drive so I could give my new gaming rig the extra push that I always wanted. After installing the SSD to my 1 year old ASUS motherboard, I noticed that my speeds weren't quite what I was fully expecting, even after tweaking and Q&A'ing the support forums. It was narrowed down to my motherboard which contains a simple AMD 880G chipset with SATAII connections. While this is perfectly fine with ordinary hard drive, it becomes a bottleneck for SSD's.That scenario led me to this product. I sought for a way to gain SATAIII connections without replacing my current motherboard. This product does just that. I made sure I had an empty PCIe x1 card slot open and checked the specs and reviews. Shipping and packaging was good as always. Installation was easy and I downloaded the latest AHCI drivers from the manufacturers website (http://www.sybausa.com/resource/SY-PEX40039/SY-PEX40039.ZIP). Installing an...
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September 29, 2011 (Tennessee) | Helpful Votes: 35 | Rating: 5

Product Description

The IO Crest 2 Port SATA III 6Gbps PCI-Express x1 Card is the easiest way to update any computer with SATA ports. Once installed¸ this host card will add SATA ports with two independent channels. This allows support of two SATA devices at speeds of up to 6Gb/s whether it is a SATA hard drive or SATA device. The IO Crest 2 Port SATA III 6Gbps PCI-Express x1 Card is the easiest way to update any computer system. Top to learn more

It does the job
Using this card with a single SATA-III SSD, the card allows me to get about 150MBps greater transfer rate than when I use my motherboard's SATA-II ports, so it does more or less what I wanted it to. Unfortunately, my SSD is still capable of maxing out the theoretical limit of a PCI-E x1 port (500 MBps) and this card falls about 100MBps short of that. It's a good price, however, considering PCI-E x4 cards of this nature are much more expensive.For the price, I would still recommend this card if your aim is to increase the benefit of an SSD over stock SATA-II ports. It's probably pretty useful for adding a couple SATA-III HDDs to a striped partition as well.NOTE: You will not be able to use your motherboard's built in RAID controller when this card is installed in your computer.
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December 22, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 4

Not for amatuers.
I bought two SATAIII (6Gb/s) PCIe adapter cards.The SY-PEX40032 has a Marvel Chipset.The SY-PEX40039 has an Asmedia Chipset.My thought being that if one worked and the other didn't, then I would return one, and order another of the one that did. Let's face it, none of these cards (Even those costing over $100.00) have gotten very many good reviews. Surprise, surprise, I got both of them to work.My situation: My step-son built a power system for me, and I am modifying for my use which will include quite a few hard drives. I'm an old-fart expert starting with vacuum tube computers in 1961. I've had my own PCs, Aplle IIc, Mac, TRS80, very 1st IBM PC. After DOS, I started with Windows 1.0. I have supported hundreds of PCs. My step-son works for a PC mfg company, and builds PCs for fun. You will understand the relevance of this in a little.My Mobo, an ASRock Z68 Prof Gen 3 did not have enough SATA ports for my needs/wants. There were...
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December 12, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 3