PCI SATA controller

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Hi GUys

Saw this at the computer shop

What is this used for ?

Diddy
 
It adds more SATA ports to your computer via the PCI interface (if we're talking about the same thing of course). Especially useful if all of your onboard ports are used.
 
The_Techie said:
It adds more SATA ports to your computer via the PCI interface (if we're talking about the same thing of course). Especially useful if all of your onboard ports are used.
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And if you have no SATA...it creates SATA ports...Is that correct ?

Diddy
 
Yip, some of them do offer Raid support, but hey are kina expensive.
8 port sata RAID 5 card = +-R3800

Hardware raid is better than software raid.
 
Using the PCI Bus to access drives is a bit silly though as it's a major speed bottleneck :(
 
:eek:

what are u mirroring rapidshare servers or something????

:confused:
 
PsyWulf said:
Using the PCI Bus to access drives is a bit silly though as it's a major speed bottleneck :(
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agreed!!! /sarc

now, as an exercise in enlightening people, open device manager, and at the top, click "view" then "devices by connection"...
drill to pci bus, and under that you should find you ide controller, or sata controller, or whatever.

so it seems, young padawan, everything is already connected to the pci bus.

anyway, moving on, in case it really makes a difference you can get sata controllers on pci-e, and it is it good enough for graphics card it should be good enough for the requirements of a wee small hdd..
 
werner said:
anyway, moving on, in case it really makes a difference you can get sata controllers on pci-e, and it is it good enough for graphics card it should be good enough for the requirements of a wee small hdd..
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Is this on pci-e x1 or x16?
 
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