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

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 18:27 -0500, Damien McKenna wrote:
> It seems to be a bit better than the basic nForce4 though, at least 
> feature-wise.

Depends on how "truthful" they are being.  ;->

A _lot_ of vendors are claiming NCQ.  But not many are actually doing
it.  And that's just looking at Windows.

> 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.

I just wish there was more than 1 vendor with a _true_ hardware SATA
RAID card

> Ack!

Yep, SATA-II v. SATA-IO is USB2.0 v. EHCI all over again.



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