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

[Damien McKenna]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>> A PCI-Express card which uses the Silicon Image SIL3132 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.
>   
Yep, that's pretty obvious from the price if nothing else.
> 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.
>   
It seems to be a bit better than the basic nForce4 though, at least 
feature-wise.

Still, at least it shows that there's finally a market opening up for 
PCI-Express cards that aren't either video or gig-e adapters.
> P.S.  Most SATA-II cards are _not_ capable of 300MBps (3Gbps), because
> they are not SATA-IO compliant.
Ack!
> 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.
>   
<smacks forehead>

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