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Sabrent SBT-RDIT Silicon Image Ultra ATA 100/133 IDE RAID PCI Host Controller Card Plus Ultra ATA 100/133 cable | List Price: $19.99
Discount Price: $18.99
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Brand: Sabrent
Binding: Electronics
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Avoid it like the plague... [Posted on 2007-05-24]
I purchased this item for an Acer computer that had limited ide controller, and wanted to add 3 additional hard drives. Big mistake. It seemed to install fine. But after hooking up the hard drives and rebooting, it appeared to lock up during boot. It was not locked up, it was in the process of permanently deleting all data on all hard drives attached to the card, and it did so without warning and without any message of any kind. There was nothing in the documentation about this possibility. I prefer items that are plug and play ready, and don't destroy data during installation. I won't ever buy anything from Sabrent again, they are on my black list, permanently, the same way they erased my hard drives. Recovery software was not able to restore any data or partitions. Waste of money, and loss of data... this should be labeled "PURCHASE AT YOUR OWN RISK."
Useless [Posted on 2007-12-06]
Windows XP refused to load the drivers from both the install disk and from their website. This happened on two different systems. The install disk has drivers for several devices, so it was difficult even finding which one to pick. In the end, none of them worked.
Doesn't work with Vista [Posted on 2008-02-11]
I've heard nothing but bad things about Sabrent products. I can't say that it is junk. It didn't work with Vista. I have a sneaky feeling that it won't work with XP either, but I can't prove it.
Works fine so far [Posted on 2008-05-17]
I installed this card with two old IDE hard drives connected to it. It works fine so far. The read/write speed is pretty good (20-30MB/s).
Here is some information for people having trouble with installation of this card:
First try not to connect any IDE devices to the card before installing the driver. My system (Vista Home Premium) recognized the card immediately and installed the default driver. However, since this card has a RAID controller, the system automatically intalled the RAID version of the driver. I am not setting up RAID, so I uninstalled the device driver and re-installed the non-RAID driver manually. The chipset on this card is Silicon Image Sil-680. The appropriate drivers for different systems can be found on the chipset manufacturer's website. Use those drivers to install. The document and driver CD that came in the box are very poor and confusing. After installing the driver, if it still doesn't recognize your hard drive, check a few things. Take off the jumper on the hard drive. If you have two hard drives, try connect one to each IDE port on the card. Try re-insert the card into the PCI slot. These things helped me to get it work.
Great Budget RAID Controller [Posted on 2008-07-31]
I've used this product in two machines now and it works great for setting up small office servers. I have one running on an XP Pro machine and using it for a Web and FTP server. It works flawlessly. Great product for a person on a budget!
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