Rosewill RC-211 PCI Express SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card

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soon after receiving drivers to operate the RAID 1 worked for 6 months RAID absolutely dead. as if there had been no hd installed. the hd's work fine when hooked into the MoBo directly.the disc that came with it was the most confusing install i've ever come across. even with a computer expert buddy helping i could barely decipher exactly where the driver was and which one to use. after set up Win XP identified updates. a pal of mine that runs servers bought this card and had similar problems. his didn't die fully but every single 3 days had to rebuild the RAID 1 array, which takes hrs upon hrs.never ever going to use Soft-RAID once again!!!

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may well perform if motherboard chipset RAID is disabled (not loaded into option ROM) or minimally capable graphics card is applied. Incompatible with motherboard ATI chipset RAID. Drivers would not load into BIOS alternative ROM with motherboard chipset RAID enabled & a PCIe ATI 4870 graphics card in location. Did not operate for my application. If you will need to add a couple of extra sata ports to a RAID chipset enabled motherboard, this is card will likely not operate. Apparently, motherboard option ROM space is restricted to 128K (most motherboards) which is consumed with the ATI motherboard chipset RAID runtime code and the ATI PCIe graphics runtime code. My six motherboard sata slots are configured as 1 OS drive, two RAID0 photoshop scratch drives, 3 RAID5 data storage drives. I necessary a couple of much more sata drives for data but the program hangs at post with a "no adequate space to copy pci alternative rom" error (Google this error ahead of buying). SIIG response was the card is incompatible with the motherboard unless selection ROM is disabled i.e. no chipset RAID. A possible answer right here is a hardware port multiplier that does not call for choice rom space e.g. see Addonics port multiplier offerings. ASUS M3A79-T Delux motherboard, Phenom 9950, Sapphire 100259-1GL HD4870 1Gb DDR5 graphics card, eight GB GSKILL pc6400, Vista Ultimate 64, WD Caviar Black HDDs

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Has jumper to bypass onboard BIOS, quite smaller size, appears sturdy, supports SATA II, supports LBA48, comes with most current firmware and drivers. Enables bootable install of RAIDed Windows XP once every little thing is figured out.It will get the job completed, despite the fact that I will use it for DVD and backup drive in IDE/SATA mode via jumper setting. Confusing guidelines, method will not boot if motherboard and card RAID are each turned on and drives are attached to card - at least one particular should be set to IDE/SATA mode (I was hoping to use both for RAIDing).Poor overall I/O overall performance compared to SB700. Somewhat of a CPU hog at occasions. GUI is OK, but require to study all directions on SI site, 2 or 3 occasions. Took a lot of trail and error to figure every little thing out. Stats from testing working with Pc Wizard on new Barracuda 250GB drives that had been initialized, repartitioned and reformatted (Quick NTFS) ahead of every single test was run under Windows XP Pro:RAID0Seq writes: SB700 55.85mb/s, RC-211 56.03mb/sSeq reads: SB700 227.07mb/s, RC-211 128.92mb/sBuff writes: SB700 249.82mb/s, RC-211 94.72mb/sBuff reads: SB700 341.64mb/s, RC-211 170.08mb/sRandom reads: SB700 47mb/s, RC-211 40mb/sRAID1Seq writes: SB700 47.37mb/s, RC-211 40.8mb/sSeq reads: SB700 139.92mb/s, RC-211 100.48mb/sBuff writes: SB700 169.47mb/s, RC-211 59.87mb/sBuff reads: SB700 228.49mb/s, RC-211 105.79mb/sRandom reads: SB700 46mb/s, RC-211 38mb/sIDE/SATASeq writes: SB700 54.9mb/s, RC-211 55.57mb/sSeq reads: SB700 140.82mb/s, RC-211 102.28mb/sBuff writes: SB700 183.42mb/s, RC-211 85.61mb/sBuff reads: SB700 212mb/s, RC-211 108.29mb/sRandom reads: SB700 40mb/s, RC-211 43mb/s

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Worth the ษ small low cost and basic but performs fine. Popped it in the PCIe x4 slot on my A8N32SLI Deluxe and it gave me 2 additional SATA ports. Even though your typical chip, these SiL 3124s have had a very good track record with me and hopefully it'll keep that way. The board was in anti static bubble wrap in the box but loose and packaging could've been much better. It's also not the fastest point in the planet but not expected from a ษ card. I haven't attempted the Raid functions and can't comment on that. This is your run of the mill average daily SATA board and not some super overall performance Raid card. If you just will need a couple of extra SATA ports this really should be a cheap solution. The A8N32SLI Deluxe already has a SiL 3124 chip onboard and was possibly expecting a handful of tweaks to get'em both to perform at the identical time. Turned out just fine.

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Worked straight out of the box without moving jumpers. Moving a jumper to disable it's bios assists when your major board is currently utilizing raid. Bought to help a BD-Rom drive. It detected it as soon as the drivers installed and had no performance troubles.The Cost is extremely nice to.I under no circumstances applied the raid functions so I wouldn't know about that. But it operates good with single HDD's and CD/DVD/BD-rom drives and burners.Functions out of the box with out obtaining to install drivers from the cd in Windows 7. None. For the cost to the functionality you get I gave it an egg. For the features enabling cd/dvd/br-rom drive support I gave it a second egg. The image does this card no justice. It is quite low profile and comes with a bracket to help this application although I don't need it, that they added that into the packaging is a plus. 3 eggs so far. The uncomplicated of installing was extremely good didn't even require a restart for me employing vista 64 and that saves you time so gets one more egg. The cd came with a ton of drivers and the manual was detailed although wasn't necessary for installing the card unless you are rather new to creating computers. I gave the 5th egg simply because the CD was so detailed with info on the item and drivers for any OS you would be employing such as Windows 7. Huge bonus.

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Believed I'd wait to see how this would run, ahead of placing my words in print. Like it for cheap as it is. No frills, no whistles just a great way to stipe two Terabyte drives. Absolutely nothing additional can be expected Directions are cryptic and often misleading. I didn't want tech help, so can't comment there. I recommend if you have resources that have setup raid stripe configurations, use them....learn from them. It will save you time and aggravation. If you have the $$$'s, come across a four port card. Do a raid 5 and safeguard your information.

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Operates like a charm with Windows Property Server. Recognized in mobo's bios without having problem. Absolutely nothing really, the sata connector isn't as sturdy as I anticipated, but I dont specifically plan on shock testing the house server any time quickly.

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Swift installRecognized by W7 Pro x64 Default BIOS position slows down boot-up; it can be disabled if you're just going to do JBODPossessing the SATA ports point upwards is a bit annoying for proper cable routing - getting them point towards the HD cage(s) would be a lot less complicatedKills transfers inside two minutes.Scandisk can not run successfully.Hangs laptop when you try to reset itNot suggested. Coolermaster HAF922Coolermaster STB-3T4-E3-GP four in three Harddisk CageCorsair CMPSU-650TX 650WGigabyte GA-MA790GPT-UD3HAMD Phenom II X3 720 95W2x two GB Corsair XMS3Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD+/-RW DLWD6401AALS (BlackƜx Maxtor 250 GBSeagate 7200.10 320 GBHitachi 7K1000.A 1 TBHitachi 7K1000.C 1 TBWindows 7 Pro x64

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Required two additional sata ports. Utilised for optical drives. Very good cost. Questionable brand high quality. Not confident how great the raid is. But it can be disabled if you want to speed up your boot times.

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created a RAID 1 with USB crucial for Vista no hardware acceleration, but i knew this coming in Utilised to develop a raid 1 for the boot-in a position difficult drives for a vista machine, worked with USB crucial to load windows

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I installed this card in a brand new setup. I went into the BIOS on initial boot and created a RAID0 array with two identical WD 250GB drives. It took about 5 seconds. As an additional reviewer suggested, I copied the driver from the CD onto a USB drive and loaded it during Vista 32 setup. The install went flawlessly and its blazing rapidly. None This card does offload onto the processor, but thanks to my new Q6600 C2Q, that doesn't matter. If you have a stout processor and need to have a low-cost striping answer, this is hugely advisable.

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It's a controller card. It does what it does. Only two SATA ports. Must have gone with 4.

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Performs just fine as an SATA card. I am not utilizing it for RAID, so I can't comment on that functionality. I did use the Silicon Image SiI3132 drivers as suggested by a different reviewer. Jumper BIOS setting is printed on card, so no need to have for instructions for that. Doesn't perform in a PCIe-16 slot--had to rearrange my Computer cars a bit to fit it in. Knocking off 1 egg for that.

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1. Newegg's really fast shipping!two. Went into my WHS with no troubles.3. Windows went ahead and download the most up-to-date drivers on the net for me (went to device manager).four. Was capable to add two 1TB drives with ease! Make it a four SATA 2 Port card? Newegg is amazing! Would suggest this card if you creating a WHS and want a couple of further SATA II ports.

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PCI-E slot. Far more bandwidth. I am very satisfied with Raid- ƒx 500gb) for video recording in 1920x1080p. On common, I get about 125mb transfer bandwidth. Only two sata slots vs. 4 or far more. The sata ports are rather cheap and do not provide a safe setup to keep sata cables from becoming disconnected. I am regularly swapping out storage hard drives for completed goods for clients and the sata cables pop out rather very easily when moving other devices in the situation. (External Drives are as well slow for me to transfer finished merchandise.) I would obtain a card with a lot more ports. 6gb/s sata in 2010. Just some thing to consider about if you are seeking for the ideal efficiency. For the common user, this is adequate.

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Has a bios so I can boot off of a cd drive attached to it. I also like how it is low profile and brief. Operates out of the box with linux, expected drivers from a usb for vista to set up. This card was a bottleneck for my harddrives. I saw ㅌmb/s Reduce in speed for single drive efficiency and ㆈmb/s Decrease in RAID0 overall performance compared to the motherboard's native controller and linux computer software raid.The onboard raid controller was not capable to set up a raid0 correctly. I utilised the onboard bios to make a 100gb raid0, and as an alternative of creating a 50gb partition on every drive and striping, it decided to make one particular partition on 1 drive, providing no efficiency obtain. Not impressed...would not buy a different. I discovered that if you want a great sata addin card, you're gonna need to have pci-e x4 not x1. Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued Buyer,We are sorry for the inconvenience this may well have triggered you. We attempt to give the most reliable items to our clients. The challenge you are acquiring could be brought on by a driver concern. Please attempt putting in the drivers from our website. If you are nonetheless obtaining a dilemma, please give us a call at 800-575-9885 so we may well further help you. We appear forward to hear from you soon.Thanks,Rosewill Client CareExternal Link(s): Rosewill RC-211 Driver|

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Drivers worked on XP Pro, install wasn't as well challenging with floppy disk. I seriously gave this a attempt in mirrored mode to prevent a disaster but twice I got information corruption and gave up. It will slow down your drives in mirrored mode. Taking it out was like upgrading to a new processor for me. Appear elsewere but I can't make any recomendations. The industry for inexpensive SATA raid isn't esay to navigate and the PCI express models are few indeed. Something for ฤ need to be tought twice about... Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued Customer,We are sorry for the inconvenience this may possibly have induced you. We try to offer the most reliable products to our consumers. We would be additional than satisfied to replace this unit for you at our cost. Please e mail us at rma@rosewill.com for your replacement. We appear forward to hear from you soon.Thanks,Rosewill Consumer Care

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Operates as advertised! RAIDs Ǘ/JBOD very easily. Comes with excellent software program. Bootable EVEN WITH AN Existing OS if you know what you're undertaking (more on this beneath) Sadly isn't hardware RAID. That's the only sad problem I have with this tiny card. Does its job perfectly otherwise. A lot of of you may be imaging your drives then striping them onto the raid (perhaps by means of a bootdisk), only to discover the BSOD. The problem is that you necessary to have currently installed the drivers for the RAID card. The way to manage this is to, Just before YOU IMAGE YOUR HDD, to insert the PCI-E x1 card Devoid of THE BOOT HDD ATTACHED and start off your computer regularly, then install the drivers for the new device, ahead of imaging the HDD then striping it more than.

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low profile, cheap software program RAID, slow, likes to randomly disconnect one particular or both drives, freezing pc. Pretty confident it destroyed a brand new challenging drive - had to RMA. Do not skimp on a RAID card, they are NOT all the same. Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued Customer,We are sorry for the inconvenience this could have brought on you. We attempt to offer the most reliable merchandise to our customers. The challenge you are having may possibly be triggered by a defective unit. We would be much more than pleased to replace this unit for you. Please e-mail us at rma@rosewill.com for your replacement. We look forward to hear from you soon.Thanks,Rosewill Customer Care

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inexpensive. TINY card.i used it to add two SATA ports to my HTPCi'll likely obtain yet another 1.Appears to perform just fine. Low-cost.SATA connectors won't lock with locking cables.Had to remove one particular of the screws holding the card to the backplane adapter to get it to seat correctly.Irritating additional couple of seconds added to the boot sequence by the BIOS of this card

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Working well in a dual boot set up. Affordable. Easy to set up, even for a RAID noob. Not genuinely a con for this card, but I spent various hours troublshooting an concern that I believed was connected to this card, turned out to by one of my HDD's had "bad sectors" and need to be RMA'ed. Do oneself a favor if you're putting in new HDD's with this card, run a diagnostics utility on them very first (I used WD Data Lifeguard) to make confident they're healthy. Downloaded drivers from siliconimage (google: sil 3132 driver), though the driver on Roswill's web page seems to be the identical. Just wanted to make positive I had the most present one particular for Win7 House Premium 64-bit and WinXP-Pro 32-bit (dual boot). Install was a breeze (after I resolved my HDD problem), but the directions are not extremely clear for XP and non-existant for Win7 (though the install for both OS's was fairly substantially the identical procedure). Works properly on my network too, can read/write from any computer without having matters regardless of OS (all are Windows XP or far better). Not making use of the software on either OS, just letting the card manage factors. All in all, extremely satisfied with this card.

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Plugged two of these cards into my hackintosh, immediately after 1st disabling the BIOS via the offered jumper.You have to dowload a driver from Silicon Image's site, even so, as soon as the driver is installed any attached devices mount with out needed a reboot. Drives seem to be hot-swappable, but haven't tested that. Does not come with cables, on the other hand, not sufficient to warrant removal of an egg. Plug and play was the name of the game, copying data is great and quickly... a lot far better than the PATA to SATA adaptor I was making use of previously!

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Allowed me to set up a raid 1 config on my technique. This wasn't an problem at first, but after replacing my power provide, this device stopped being recognized by the SataRaid5manager software it uses. Windows still recognizes it and I checked each drive and the Raid is indeed operating. It's just that their application thinks it doesn't exist for some reason. Rosewill was unable to resolve the issue with me and now I'm stuck with the 'removable drive' icon in my method tray. At least it operates and was affordable.It's only two ports. I just occurred to want two port raid on my board and come about to only have a PCI Express slot cost-free. I also didn't want to commit considerably money. This was so right for me I think it's funny.

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Uncomplicated to install and is very quickly for it's expense. Whoever wrote the manual does not speak English as a initially language so it might take a read-by way of or two to totally fully grasp what they are saying.Initial one particular I received was DOA, but second one worked like a charm

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Worked initial time out of the box. At this time I'm utilizing it as a pass by way of. The mother board has only two sata ports. Worked fantastic to add two further ports. The little size of the card was excellent. My video card has a cable that would of been in the way of a larger card. No Cons I will be using the raid features in the near future