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SYBA SD-ATA133R PCI IDE Controller Card $14.99 Free Shipping

The same card can be bought for $13 shipped from Acortech. It's called "Creative I/O". Both should more properly be called "Syba Creative I/O" - mfg is Syba, "Creative I/O" is the product line name.

I bought one of these and had a whole mess of problems. The BIOS causes several of my systems to not make it through their own BIOS initialization sequence properly (that means no boot and not fixable). These boards have a flash ROM chip on them that is not supported by Silicon Image's flash BIOS updater, so that route is out. I tried this board in one system it would work in, replacing a Promise TX2 100 board going to WD200JB drives, and got data corruption. All in all, this board has been a pretty huge dud for me, and so I'd dissade anyone else from buying it, and would steer clear of the Silicon Image ATA 133 chip in general.

The Promise TX2 boards I've had great luck with - except that I cannot find anywhere that has them cheap. And whatever happened to Highpoint?
 
tfinch2,
What don't you like about it?

I thought this was supposed to be a great little cheapo card with an SI chipset.

I've read many positive posts from endusers who have purchased this and other makes with the same SI chipset.

I'm looking to buy.

I may not RAID or I may just plain old drive it.

I'd appreciate any specifics you can give.
 
I have the card as we speak, running two 160s, a 120, and a 80 gig that I'm booting off of. The only thing that I really hate about this card is that it'll lock up the computer and blue screen you when you try to query HDD temps, like with Speedfan. So basically Speedfan doesn't work with this. In fact, you can't even use Speedfan because it'll bluescreen during Speedfan's loading stage where it scans for HDD thermistors. SMART also doesn't work.

I'm using this on a Shuttle AN51R nForce3 250.
 
As just a vanilla PCI controller I'm sure it's fine. Software RAID creates and manages the stripping duties via software. This can tie up operating system and system resources. Hardware RAID uses firmware type software burned on the controller itself. You can create and maintain the drives without an operating system even installed on the machine.
 
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