4 Ports PCI SATA Raid Controller Internal Expansion Card with 2 Sata Cables, PCI to SATA Adapter Converter for Desktop PC Support HDD SSD

This product doesn't have many reviews, so here goes: It works! I am running windows xp home 64-bit on a dell dimension 4600, and this card was easy to physically install, connect sata cables to, and worked right away on start up. I was able to install the drivers from the mini disc, easy peasy. It was truly plug and play. So, to recap, if you have an ancient computer (ide motherboard w/ an available pci slot) and are using an outdated OS (like windows xp), then, this card will bring your retro machine one step closer to current.

Its a simple PCI card so installation should not be a issue. I was worried a bit at first when I installed this into my second machine, as I needed to configure my boot sequence. This does work perfectly and I am now using my hard drives in raid in only a short time. It did take some time to clone my current one, but that's a software thing vs the limiting capabilities of the card.

I purchased the PCI SATA Raid Controller to add more SATA ports to my homegrown NAS PC. The PC recognized the controller at POST and the controller's BIOS displayed the size of the SSD drive I attached. Linux automatically recognized the drive controller card, but did not recognize that an SSD drive was attached. With some Google searching I found articles that said that the SIL3114 control does not appear to support SSD drives. I swapped out the SSD drive for an old spinning HD drive and Linux recognized the drive.

finding the correct drivers for win10 took some time and testing. program is pretty sparse in options. i did accomplish the goal of having additional sata ports for a raid 0 set up in a dell optiplex. transfer speeds are usb2 like, i suspect that is all that's supported on the pci slot. overall served my purpose of having a raid0 for data backup/expanded disc capacity.

Put it in, turned on computer and it installed itself with no errors in the device manager. plugged in my 2nd SSD and a new removable drive bay. Turned on computer and it fired right up with everything working great. I'm running Windows 10 on a Lenovo ThinkTank. I'm so happy I could dance on the roof, if I could get there!

I can't get this thing running, because it came with a random cd with sewing machine software instead. I later found out that the company that made the chipset has been bought out a long time ago. This raid controller is based on abandoned architecture. I have not been able to find SATARAID5 for Linux yet.

Fortunately it died before the 30 day warranty expired. Maybe I just got a bad card, but Im going to try a usb-3 pci card instead. Really need more products like this for older mbs.

Very Item for your Computer.