SYBA SY-VIA-150R PCI SATA / IDE Combo RAID Controller Card

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Attractive price, Through chip, mirror RAID which is all I truly necessary, seemed like may well be a strong card for two SATA raid drives. Wasted three strong weeks off-on troubleshooting this card, even RMA'd 1 to syba mainly because I was convinced there was a hardware challenge with the card this soon after a long drawn out testing period, which pushed me over 30 days out :( Sad conclusion is it's junk. eight-9 mb/sec is max data price on SATA connected devices (w/non raid mode), PATA are 50ish ...what offers correct!@!@. Tested on Windows XP and Windows 7, each fail... usb is quicker, even images take ages to load more than SATA. Attempted on four different computer systems even, all have incredibly low data prices. EPIC FAIL EPIC FAIL. Waste of $, a thing negative is up with these cards.

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the card worked appropriate get go none

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supplies SATA ports on my old motherboard. low price. Functions with my motherboard to supply bootable device help. I had difficulties with PATA ports below linux 2.6.19. Linux driver necessary that I use modules (as opposed to a monolithic kernel) for my software RAID, due to the fact the driver for this card didn't initialize till after the RAID drivers loaded. Operates below linux two.6.22 with the "VIA SATA help". This will present the SATA and the IDE drives as SCSI devices to linux.

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It operates wonderfully with my 1TB raid 1. It was simple to configure without having manual. It performs with windows server 2003. It was cheap. The manual is useless, the files on the cd are not exactly where it says, and besides this is year 2008, we have auto-run technology. For some cause I couldn't get mine to display the bios configuration tool, not certain why. It does not work with linux, but I dont hold that against them as well considerably, It produced my clarkconnect box freeze. The sata ports appear just a little loose fitting. It functions incredibly well with server 03, using the software they provide. Nevertheless I would like to be able to use the BIOS level configuration tool, It does not function at all, I pressed TAB like the book said, Attempted in various Computer etc.. Oh well.. Get what you spend for.Thanks Newegg!

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This was the only card I could uncover to expand quantity of drives in the ABIT AV8 motherboard. Other PCI cards triggered problems in post or W2K none

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-Uncomplicated to install and gives 2 SATA and 1 IDE port. -Inexpensive (Price not quality).-I've had no challenges. -Has its personal brief status screen at startup, (after bios factor but prior to windows). Not really a con although.

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-Worked with windows x64 without having needing to set up drivers, Windows saw raid array automatically-Raid BIOS was actually effortless to set up -Applied HD tune Pro and test speeds were eight-9MB/sec making use of two 500GB WD Caviar Blue Hdd's, an additional newegg user pointed out this issue-HD Tune Pro on single non raid WD 500GB hdd = 74MB/ sec common-Boot time was terrible, CPU utilization was almost generally near the greatest limit It did in truth develop a raid 1 array but the efficiency was terrible. It is cheap and excellent for mastering.

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Simple to install and use and the directions were quite excellent. Price tag was wonderful for a basic RAID card. HDD light doesn't function anymore, but who cares. I had trouble putting in a new OS at the very same time as this program. Because I was executing RAID 1. The workaround was to merely set up it on one particular drive then mirror the other. This is ideal for somebody who justs wants RAID on their desktop pc. I put it on my 4 year old Sony VAIO and with 2 1TB tricky drives. If you are questioning about the value differences between this on the other RAID controllers, the reason is that this is more for a property desktop environment and can't do fancy RAID five, or deal with far more than two drives in RAID. But for me this was fantastic.

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It can be applied to flash 360's! Why would there be. I dont seriously feel this is the very best sata controller card if you want more sata ports, its all appropriate I guess, I thought everyone purchased this to flash 360's.

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Really simple set up if just adding much more HDDs. The software install was basic and Windows detected the card and HDDs with no challenge. No PATA cable included? I did have not used the SATA or RAID yet nor have I employed the card for a boot drive.

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Low-costSY-Via-150R made by SYBA (Creative IO) equals to Russian Orient V-802R. They have the exact same VT6421A chips and BIOS chips Winbond W49V002AP. Both have marking on board VTS2238B3 VIATECH. Card genuinely acting up. Second SATA channel fails all the time. Only SATA functions in RAID. To repair that problem download BIOS update from Rosewill RC-212 VT6421A. Soon after that IDE and SATA you can put in RAID. PINs on SATA , IDE and PCI suppose to be GOLD PLATED! That holes just didn't do that at all. I consider, that's the purpose why that card acting up. Or could be some power elements don't work properly simply because I notice that Via chip get's hot.

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Greatest SATA PCI card in market place for the value, simple installation, automatically recognize it by my Aopen motherboard, cool computer software for By means of RAID configuration. You can simply connect it to be performs as bootable drive C:/. Through website update driver just about every month, I feel the finest for this price tag!

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Win7 x64 support ideal out of the box, no driver installation necessary No noticable efficiency enhance from RAID0 setup This card functions wonderful with Win7 64 bit. The finest factor about it is that the win7 installation disk effectively detected the controller and raid array and allowed me to carry out a clean (wipe) set up devoid of possessing to deal with the old school F6-floppy-driver headaches.I'm making use of this with two WD6400AAKS and was hoping for a big efficiency boost, but so far I couldn't detect substantially of a difference even with HDTach or Windows Perf Index.

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My mother usually said if you cant say anything good dont say something at all. SATA interface doesnt work. No boot menu. The ide interface would let you use a ide difficult disk. The serial ata interfaces would not. Dont waste your time or cash, just get a promise card and be performed with it.

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The card installed with ease. I have had zero issues, and it has ran non-cease for 3 weeks. None yet.....

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Operates Excellent!! I've Flashed 5+ Xbox 360's with the SATA adapter. Every thing is internal so i have to open case when flashing but it's not that undesirable. None.

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Price Tried in 3 different PCs. Card makes technique briefly hang each 15 to 20 seconds. Final MB I tried was an ECS 648FX-A with Windows Server 2003. Invest a bit far more and come across a card that is recognized by the OS and loads drivers automatically...

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It worked for 32 days It only worked for 32 days

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Utilised this in a server for about a week alone and decided to add yet another controller. OOPPPPSS - Operates all by itself in the NT4 server - sort of-Does give an error every so frequently that is recoverable. Does not share other SATA cards or IDE controllers at all.Causes crashes continually. I notified the manufacturer and was told not to use it with other cards.That is pure arrogance (your may well substitute other explicit words) to anticipate end customers not to use other peripherals when they use your item.The software is poorly written and not supported at all as knowledgeable by its efficiency.This is the third card I purchased from NEWEGG that does not operate with other controllers from other manufactures.As I stated just before- I do not blame Newegg'sfor this challenge- It is the manufacturer not stating the limits or accurate specifications of the cards just to make a sale. Deceptive advertising and marketing at its finest. Specially at the price of the end user. If I had been Newegg- I would insure that the specifications are met and insure accountability to the manufacturer.The sweetness of a inexpensive cost is soon forgotten right after the bitterness of poor quality remains.

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worked with my TS MS28. and i had to use it with my dvd burner fro a though. none

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el cheapo Cannot disable RAID, therefore cannot run a single SATA drive. Kinda useless for me considering that I don't have 2+ drives to RAID. Nice paper weight even though.

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Functions excellent for XBOX and Raid I went by means of four of these till I found a great one particular Also bad this is about it for XBOX but the excellent news is its amazing for a low cost raid card

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I've used this card for a year, and it's by no means provided me a dilemma (using Linux) ... until the new drive arrived. Silicon Image 3112A chipset is incompatible with new Seagate 750GB drives. LAME. It's low cost, and simply because of its prevalent chipset, it Just Works below Linux. Unclear if it will function with SATA2 drives.

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Lets you run a RAID if your MOBO isn't setup for itlets you swap in a new drive if 1 goes down, some cards dont support this I hear. Directions don't tell you how to setup your drives running a RAID1 with a fresh install/blank hdsDirections and BIOS are written in broken English.Imaging of drive at times stalls when operating by BIOS, tends to make me question information integrity, do it by means of your OS after If your gona do a RAID 1, get one drive running through your MOBO's IDE, install your OS and all that. Then, plug in this card and connect your HD'sIf I could do it once again, I consider I would. Its correct you get what you spend for, and I'd rather function an additional couple of hours than spend twice as a lot.

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At present making use of it with the 250 gig WD SATA Difficult Disk. Operates wonderful as a single drive. I don't have dollars for the 2nd drive yet, but it's nice to know i will be able to stripe it later on. Incredibly versitle card. Can do single or Many drives. Also was capable to use it to modify my firmware on my xbox 360 quite simply ྪ minutes). None. Great Drive. Any idiot who claims to be technical and can't figure out how to configure this controller for a single drive is just not what he/she says.