Sabrent Silicon Image Raid Native SERIAL ATA (SATA-150) 4 PORTS Low Profile PCI Controller Host Card Adapter (SBT-SRD4)

I had 2 of these cards running a software RAID(Windows Storage Spaces) on all 8 drives. For years. Terabytes transferred across the silicone and it never flinched.

Thanks to the simple, no conflict operation of these Serial ATA PCI Controllers, I now run 10, 500 GB hard drives in my server, with all exhibiting excellent performance and no problems to date. I would recommend these to anyone requiring RAID configurations or massive storage needs. Kudos!

This product is not recognized as being installed. Installed both the Sabrent and Syba drivers... and nothing. Even had the card replaced and still nothing. Simply was not detected by the system.

Bought this card to run my software RAID 5 on my file server. Within 2-3 months the ports started to fail. its still in use but i only have one DVD drive connected so it is seeing very light duty.

I bought this controller to support a single new Seagate 7200.11 1TB SATA drive.I had no intention of using it in a RAID configuration.As delivered the card would not recognise the drive and myPC would not boot, hanging at the SATA disk detection screen.This card comes with some pretty old Silicon Image firmware.Googling I discovered that there is much newer firmware availablefrom SII. I downloaded the current non-RAID firmware from SIIbut it wouldn't install from win XP. I finally managed to installthe new firmware by setting up a USB stick to boot the PC intoFreeDOS, then flashing the new firmware from DOS.The card now detects the Seagate drive and works correctlyexcept for one issue: If I cold-boot the PC with a reset or powercycle all is well, but if I issue a re-start from winXP the cardwill still hang at the disk detect screen. This is only a minorannoyance, however.Overall the card is cheap and it does work but only when upgradedto current firmware.

Installed the card in a home-built Freenas box, then tried to find an update to the on-board firmware at Silicon Graphics - Couldn't find one that worked in Windows or DOS. None of the choices from the text menus seemed to match the actual board type. Pressed on despite the lack of update, and Freenas recognized the drives just fine. I setup a software Z-Raid array of 4 drives with no problems. (To avoid the usual problems with software Raid arrays, my boot drive was a more reliable CF IDE drive).The card has worked with no problems for the past month - I have fiddled with my array a few times and even rebuilt the array once as an experiment to see what a future disk failure would look like. As long as you are aware of the disk-size limitations, this is a VERY affordable raid card for old Sata Drives under 500GB.

As described this product does the job. If you are going to install windows home server on the drives connected with this raid card you will need to dig around for alternative drivers because the drivers that come with it do not work. Works perfectly with Linux (Ubuntu Server, Freenas, etc.)Speed is probably going to be limited by your PCI bus. Had no complaints with speed with disks arranged w/ RAID or w/o RAID. If you putting this in headless unit detecting RAID failure will be extremely difficult.

Windows sees card fine but drivers wont install have surfed the internet trying to find drivers that work waste of money and to expensive to ship back no more amazon for where do i cancel.