Product ReviewsMASSCOOL PCI-E 1 port eSATAII + 1 port SATAII + 1 port ATA133(JMB363 chipset) Model XWT-PCIE15
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With 19 User Reviews
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 Rating: Review Date: 03/06/10 |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/28/10 |
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What can I say - this product works as advertised and was easy to install. No issues. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/29/10 |
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This eSata Port PCI Express x1 card never worked, in a brand new Windows 7 PC. I eMailed back & forth with Masscool. But, they were unable, or unwilling to resolve the problem. They sent me links to web sites that had driver Zip files, but no instructions. I found this odd, because a PCI Express x1 USB Port card from Masscool worked fine. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/22/10 |
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I needed an extra IDE port since my new motherboard only had (1). I installed the Masscool adapter, but couldn't get it to work reliably. I tried several combinations with the (3) drives I had but was unable to get everything to work together. May be a good product for some, but I had to return it because of compatability problems. Good Luck! |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/22/09 |
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PCI VS PCI E card (E card don't fit Socket A Motherboards They should have told me. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/05/09 |
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I'm not sure why others are having trouble with this hardware, I had no problems whatsoever with this. Installed Win7 off a CD Drive connected to this expansion card and everything registered without needing to install the drivers for it yet (100% clean install, not upgrade etc). I actually did that well after I had Windows7 running and grabbed the drivers off the masscool website rather than the small mini CD that came with the hardware. Very much a plug & play hardware device. I would buy from them again. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/02/09 |
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Zero documentation. Crashed my computer and had to re-install operating system (Win 7). DO NOT RECOMMEND. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/25/09 |
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Plase be advised that the card comes with no instructions. Masscool does not respond to support questions on this card. I do not know if the thing even works. I have wrote Masscool support severly time with no response. I will never buy any thing from Masscool. I plan to uninstall and throw the card in the junk pile on my next clean up which is coming up soon. Masscoll doen not stand behind there products. They are nothing but another electornic junk manufacture. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/15/09 |
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Bought it for my friends computer but it didn't work there. He is running Vista but it wouldn't install. Installed it in my old computer running XP and it worked. There is NO DOCUMENTATION so if something doesn't work the first time you are left on your own. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/14/09 |
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She sees it as just another hardrive hanging off the motherboard, cool just as advertized. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/01/09 |
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The Product not only performed as advertised But allowed me to up convert my wifes system to fully funtional, I was able to add her Ide Hard drive to her sata Mother board as well as finnally connect her Cd Ron and DVD Rom . when we purchased her new Mother board it was a sata only MB and we could only connect 1 periferal to the drive archatecture now she has a complete operating system thank you |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/30/09 |
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the SATA & e-SATA just blasts any USB2 or 1394a or b connection @ 3Gbps / 3,000Mbps. The IDE Channel on the card interferes with the integrated IDE channel on the MB, the driver disabled the DMA channel of the second IDE device on the integrated IDE channel and every time I re-enable it, it's disabled again after re-boot. I used it to hook up an internal SATA drive and an external SATA drive in a Thermaltake MAX 4 Hard Drive Enclosure, I haven't tested the adding of any drives to the IDE channel but will do this eventually. If I need another one this will be the one I get. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/16/09 |
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I bought this because the new board I bougnt would not work with my old IDE drives. I have had no problems running XP sp3. Only using for IDE drives. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/15/09 |
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I was not able to get this card to work and it repeatedly crashed my computer until it would no longer boot, even with the card removed. I had to re-install my Vista operating system. It comes with no instructions. I'm usually good at figuring out hardware and software problems, but this one stumped me. I threw the card out and bought a USB to IDE cable connect instead that works just fine. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/26/09 |
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Installed this controller on ECS motherboard running Windows Vista 64 bit opterating system. This controller installed on the first try no probblems works just fine. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/12/09 |
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This is a piece of junk, my PC doesn't see/recogonize the card and after sending Masscool support an email I have not had any communication from them. Will never purchase a Masscool product of any kind again. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/08/08 |
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I was building a new machine and bought this card because the motherboard I was buying (Intel DG35EC) only had one IDE channel. Was having lots of trouble getting the machine to consistently boot. Finally updated the card's driver and all seemed good. Not so. After using for a day or two it was up to its old tricks again. I tried multiple configurations to get this card to work: one HD, one optical drive per IDE channel, both HDs on the card, both opticals on the card. Thought the final was working, but windows XP pro would blue screen within an hour of booting. Pulled all drives off the card's IDE channel, still trouble. Pulled the card and so far so good. It's a shame I didn't have the experiences of other reviewers. I could really have used this card. Will now probably bite the bullet and buy SATA optical drives. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/18/08 |
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This little beauty works like a charm. Like previous reviewer, I had two older IDE hard drives and bought a kit that had a mobo with only one IDE port. No problems at all. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/17/08 |
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Worked great but you must use master and slave jumpers. I used it for a CD and DVD drive and used the one motherboard IDE cable for harddrives. This allows you to use your older IDE drives easily. Just wish the connector cable was SATA instead of USB. Might be faster. |
Installed easily and set up for future use.