[Pc_Support] PCI-Express SATA card for $22 (NCQ, 3gb, etc)

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 12:04 -0500, Damien McKenna wrote:
> http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10407&cs_id=1040702&p_id=2530&seq=1&format=2&style=
> A PCI-Express card which uses the Silicon Image SIL3132 
> (http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=32&ptid=1) 
> chipset.  Very tempting.

And very much FRAID.
Use it as a "dumb" SATA card for a PCIe system.
That's all it's good for.

But at least it _will_ get your storage off your regular PCI bus.
If the SATA channels in the PCIe chipset don't already do that.

-- Bryan

P.S.  Most SATA-II cards are _not_ capable of 300MBps (3Gbps), because
they are not SATA-IO compliant.  Furthermore, NCQ matters little if the
OS doesn't have support for the chipset's NCQ.  Most don't these days in
the Linux world, and it's still kinda marketing in the Windows world
too.

-- 
Bryan J. Smith   b.j.smith at ieee.org   http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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