ULTRA133 TX2 Eide Ultra ATA-133PCI 2CH W2K/NT/WME/95/98

List Price: $49.00

Features:

• Super-fast RAID controller card
• Up to 200 MB/sec data transfer rate
• Supports 66MHz PCI motherboards for higher data bandwidth
• Supports hot swapping of failed drive under RAID 1
• Uses standard high octane Ultra ATA/100 Drives

Customer Reviews:

ULTRA133 TX2 Eide Ultra ATA-133PCI [Posted on 2005-10-17]
The product operates exactly as advertised. I can now add up to 4 additional drives to my system as a result of getting this product --- note that I already had 4 drives, and I needed to add an additional one. I have only added one so far, but because it has it's own BIOS, you can add a master and slave IDE drive on each channel, and it has 2 channels -- primary and secondary -- just like the PC mother board. So... if you have enough power supply connections, you can have upto 8 drives after you have installed this 4-drive add-on board.

NOTE: I used it for installing Linux stuff on an existing XP machine, and it handles it perfectly.

NOT a RAID controller [Posted on 2006-08-30]
Product works fine, but it doesn't do RAID. I didn't buy this from Amazon, but I figured I'd save people from going through what I went through: an hour on hold with Promise until they could finally tell me that it wasn't a RAID controller.

It didn't work too well as a controller card, though, either, so I can't really recommend this. It wouldn't boot into Windows on my main boot drive.

NOT A RAID CONTROLLER like the description on Amazon says [Posted on 2006-10-11]
I wasted a lot of time and $ to find Amazon's mistake...hope you don't have to.

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