Vantec 6 Port Sata PCI Card Review

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Category: Pc Hardware

Published on Thursday, 18 July 2013 17:04

Written by Ben

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The more data you gather - video files, games, software backups etc. the more space you need. It's one thing to buy an additional hard disk but where would you connect it to if your motherboard is out of connections?

Well , in my case it wasn't just the motherboard that was out of connections , it was also my old PCI Sata\IDE card too .This card was an old VIA PCI interface card that had 3 SATA connections and one IDE connection. 2 of the SATA connections were internal and 1 was external positioned towards the back of the case. The IDE connection was internal as well.

As I gathered more hard disks from scrapped machines and previous upgrades i made, I came to a point I that I had not enough connections in my current machine to actually use these new precious storage solutions…

After browsing E-bay for a while I bought this:

It comes with 6 (!) SATA connections which 4 are internal and 2 are external. The bundle comes with 2 SATA cables , 1 user's manual and 1 driver cd.

Installation process was fast and simple.

The card supports RAID (redundant array of independent disks) which allows the 2 hard disks to be written to at the same time as if they were one disk, which improves performance.

Here is the full specifications list as shown in the manufacturer's website:

·  Silicon Image Sil3114 SATA controller chip

·  Compliant with PCI Specification, Rev. 2.3, 32bit, 33/66Mhz

·  Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 Specification

·  Provides 4 independent channels to support up to 4 Serial ATA devices

·  Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, JBOD and Individual modes

·  Supports SATA up to 150MBps

You can also checkout the product via the following link : http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/391

The card supports Windows®2000 , XP 32/64 bit , Vista 32/64 bit. Recommended for those who ran out of SATA connections (like me) or just want to build a file server using an old PC that has those big old PCI interface slots.

Price - 30$ on E-bay.

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