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Drivers, software didn't work
I hate to slam this card, because it seems to be a great card, once working. However, I was unable to get the drivers to function and had to return the card.
I bought it intenting to use it with one external hard drive, not as a RAID card, but the description said it could be used with any external HDD with the appropriate drivers.
I installed the card - easy, and plugged in the HDD (Western Digital My Book 1TB) with 3ft eSATA cable. I popped in the driver CD from the box...
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Works well
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) I use this with the Thermaltake BlacX and a little program called HotSwap! [...] that adds a "safely remove hardware" icon/capability for this SiI3132 based hardware. I was uncomfortable because I could not tell if the drive was parked before I removed it. The HotSwap! spins the drive down for me! Sweet!
No controlled speed tests yet, but the file copy and format times coinc...
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04/02/2009
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Card is PCI-X, not PCI
The product name is not correct in Amazon's search. The specs say PCI-X, the name just says PCI. Not the same.
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Crashes the Mac Pro
The card doesn't come with Mac drivers and I contacted support to see if they had a solution. The support team was very responsive and provided me with a third party driver. I think this is the core of the issue. Once the driver was installed, everything seemed to work fine, until the Mac Pro got its first few kernel panics ever.
I thought a couple of them were flukes until I deduced that it only happened when a connected hard drive needed to spin up or be mounted/dismounted.
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05/01/2009
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PCI-EXPRESS Esata Card - Great Card !!!!
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) I have been using this product for a long time and needed to buy about 6 more for our servers. I noticed the price on Amazon was unbeatable and thus bought them here.
We use these cards in our HP Proliant servers with Thermaltake ESATA Docks. (Example: Thermaltake BlacX eSATA Hard Drive USB Docking Station. The servers and Windows 2003/2008 Server have no problem detecting and ...
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Great value, easy to install, works great on W2003 server!
Great value! i want to buy another WD esata external 1TB hard drive to use the raid option...
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11/13/2008
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This is a PCI-EXPRESS CARD - Works Beautifully
I have been using this product for a long time and needed to buy about 6 more for our servers. I noticed the price on Amazon was unbeatable and thus bought them here.
We use these cards in our HP Proliant servers with Thermaltake ESATA Docks. (Example: Thermaltake BlacX eSATA Hard Drive USB Docking Station. The servers and Windows 2003/2008 Server have no problem detecting and or working with these cards. The thermaltake docks work perfectly with them also.
The docks a...
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good card, bad description
The description says "PCI" but that's not correct; it is PCI-E card.
I was able to deploy the card in another machine - one with a PCI-E slot - and it is working acceptably.
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03/08/2009
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Works as expected
If you need external ports, go ahead, throughput is independent of on-board SATA.
No problem with drivers.
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Flexible solution for adding eSATA drives to your system
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) I purchased the unit early March 2009 and have been using it daily. During system start-up (Dell 720 running Vista Ultimate), I set my bios to turn off RAID so the drives are not linked in any way. I have been using this card for months with two eSATA devices: a Thermaltake BlacX eSATA USB Docking Station which is hot swappable (3 GB/sec throughput) and a Western Digital WDH2Q20000N 2TB M...
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08/23/2009
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