Controller Cards

Everyone is waiting for Intel’s next LGA 1155 chipset announcement, which we previewed in Intel Z68 Express Chipset Preview: SSD Caching And Quick Sync . Z68 is expected to fix shortcomings of the...

Pros: 8 SATA ports, PCIeX4, onboard memory and raid 5 calculations, excellent compatibility, no problems with my Asus P6T. Actually allowed me to raid 5 4X 750GB Caviar Black drives without issue!

This article is going to reopen the series of tests devoted to RAID controllers, which was temporarily absent from our regular review schedule. Today we are going to talk about a new lineup from AMCC...

Pros: Add IDE RAID capabilities to newer systems. Cons: The divers/firmware are poorly written. You can't boot to dives on the card. The card works fine until the computer enters any suspend state.

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Today we are going to introduce to you a hardware RAID 5 controller from HighPoint that supports SATA-II and SATA150 hard disk drive, advanced PCI-Express interface, both command queuing...

Newegg.com - HighPoint RocketRAID 640 PCI-Express 2.0 x4 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card...

Pros: This simply worked. Fit and finish are good, it was seen by my motherboard, Windows XP and even a couple of flavors of Linux (Acronis True Image worked flawlessly off the boot CD). I used one...

Pros: Works after 5 years as flawlessly as day one. Cons: None. Other Thoughts: Quality product. It just works. It has been in at least 5 different machines from XP to Win 7, several versions of...

Pros: Nice concept Cons: Did not work with portable hard drive that require power from the USB. It came with a external power supply, but the adapter was not meant for the US.(????) Other Thoughts:...

Pros: With (8) 500GB SATA II drives, in a RAID5 external array, I can transfer data at over 200MByte/second, using Write-through cache setting. This is a very nice RAID card. I will buy a 2nd, when...

Pros: Immediately recognized by Vista (32 bit). Cons: Drivers on cd are for Win 98'

Today we will talk about a SAS RAID controller from HighPoint that belongs to the highest-performance controller series from this maker. It is based on a popular Intel IOP348 processor with 1.2 GHz...

Our today’s roundup will be devoted to five Adaptec RAID controllers. We will test not only the popular Serial ATA models, but also the solutions supporting SAS storage devices.

Pros: When/if it works, it's decently fast. Cons: "WebGUI" management software is terrible, buggy, and somehow managed to crash in such a way that relaunching it is ineffective. I've had to listen to...