PCI SATA 2 card?

[Cyber-Mav]

is there any company out there that makes a good quality and reliable sata 2 card that will work in a pci slot of an old abit kt7a-raid mother board? want to add more drives to the system but IDE drives are harder and more expensive to source than sata drives are now. need a reliable card since its gonna be used as a file server so it needs to handle the constant hdd activity without nackering out.

i do understand that sata2 on pci bus is pointless since its limited to 133mb/s due to interface speed but just want it to be compatible with samsung drives which are sata 2 and dont seem to have a sata 1 opteration jumper on them.

 

[fobose]

I bought a TeckNet PH-0165C 4 Port SATA Serial ATA PCI-E Card, but you can also get a "TeckNet PH-0165C 4 Port SATA Serial ATA PCI Card", it says it comes with 4 SATA ports (2 internal, 2 external) but in the manual it shows you jumpers to either disable the internal OR the external ones so in actual fact you can only use 2 ports.

Its got a silicone 3132 chipset and I haven't had any problems with the PCI-E one. Not bad for about £15 inc delivery.

 

[plasticmekon]

Hmm.. a PCI-E card is tempting. I have a PCI SATA add on card at the moment with two 500Gb drives on it, one for games and one for music. (One of them has the paging file on it too.) I wonder if swapping the PCI card for a PCI-E one would give me any gains. The two 500s aren't in RAID or anything mind you.

 

[rpstewart]

If the drives aren't running in RAID then it's unlikely that you'll max out the bandwidth of the PCI bus. I'd stick with the PCI card unless you get to the point that you need the slot for something else.