SATA Cards

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That card will quite happily run four individual drives. It is quite expensive for that though, there are 2 and 4 port non RAID SATA cards out there for significantly less.
 
That SATA card will let you run your HDDs in RAID 0, 1, 10, and JBOD or as single HDDs in IDE mode....and if it is only to run HDDs in (single) IDE mode you could use This PCI SATA RAID card, which would be quite a bit cheaper. :)
 
Shame they don't have a 4-8 port non RAID, be a bit cheaper, and useful if you just needs lots of drives in standard layout.
 
Zen said:
is there any difference in running these cards in PCI-X and PCI?
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No point buying a PCI-X SATA card if you don't have a PCI-X slot (which allows for considerably faster data transfers than PCI) to take advantage of the faster data transfers....if you put a PCI-X SATA card into A PCI slot, it will limit the card to a data transfer of 133MB/s, whereas PCI-X 133 MHz gives 1.06 GB/s, and the Asus M2N32-SLi Deluxe WiFi does not have a PCI-X slot.

PCI-X speeds is not required if you are going to run HDDs as single HDDs in IDE mode.

If you want an interface with a faster transfer than PCI, then maybe a SATA card using PCI-E x1 might fit the bill.
 
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mmm i see

maybe i should just get some NAS drives or just simply getting a external drive could be good alternative?
 
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