Sabrent SBT-SRD2 Silicon Image Serial ATA 2-Port RAID PCI Controller Host Card Adapter

Manufacturer : SABRENT In Stock : 2 List Price: $19.99 Quantity : 1 2

Features

• Add 2 SATA ports with RAID 0 and RAID 1 options
• SATA provides transfer rates of 1.5 Gbps
• RAID 0 (striping) for maximum performance; RAID 1 (mirroring) for extra reliability
• Support for hard drives larger than 137 GB
• Support Inquiries - Support@kinamax.com

Product Description

This PCI Host Adapter can upgrade your desktop computer to have dual Serial ATA RAID Channels. It can support Low profile PCI and regular size PCI both. The board provides a 32bit, 33/66 MHz PCI interface on the host side and dual, fully compliant Serial ATA ports on the device side to access Serial ATA hard disk drive. Striping (RAID 0) and Mirroring (RAID 1) improve the data performance and provide the data redundancy.

Amazon.com Product Description

With the Sabrent SBT-SRD2 Silicon Image Serial ATA 2-Port RAID PCI Controller Host Card Adapter, it is easy to add Serial ATA (SATA) ports and RAID 0 and RAID 1 to your system.

The card provides a 32-bit 33/66 Mhz PCI interface on the host side and two fully compliant Serial ATA ports on the device side. This permits you to connect two SATA drives for RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring). RAID 0 increases performance by writing data to multiple drives simultaneously and RAID 1 protects data from failure by writing data to both drives so there is a backup in case one drive fails. Hard drives larger than 137 GB are supported and the Serial ATA interface has transfer rates of 1.5 Gbps.

The card requires Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003, or Linux or Novell Netware. Drivers for Windows operating systems are included.

What's in the Box
SBT-SRD2 serial ATA 2-port RAID PCI controller host card adapter, low profile PCI bracket, drivers CD-ROM, quick installation guide.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating of 3.50 out of 2 reviews

Rating :
Works well but nightmare to install - Momojojo, Nov 26, 2007

This card works fine but the driver was a nightmare to install. XP recognizes the card but refuse to install the driver. Tried to download the latest driver online but still didn't work. Read in couple forums that you need to flash/update your bios to recognize the driver if your computer is old or your motherboard is a particular brand. Anyhow, finally got it to work.

Also, I think one manufactures makes all the SATA RAID cards it just gets re-branded so you might still experience this issue even if you purchase another brand. (I bought two different branded SATA raid PCI cards and they were both made by the same manufactures giving me the same exact driver problems.)


Rating :
Easy to install, its does what is suppose to... - Leonidas Duarte Suarez, Feb 02, 2007

easy to install, drivers and instruction are clear... but my hard drives give me more points with the mobo/RAID controller (intel). than with this card... (drop a few points only...)

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