pci ex sata cards on dfi?

[regan1985]

i have a dfi rdx200 and it doesnt have the best raid controler to say the least,plus its only sata1, so i have been looking into getting a sata2 raid controler via a pci ex x1 socket, just dont know if my raid will be better performance or not, what are your views!cheers

[Silkie]

It depends on the card really. for a 1x slot IIRC you'll be limited to 2 ports but two big fast sata 2 drives on a Sata 2 controller should be enough for most people. Go for a good brand if you can like Adaptec which I can recomend as after problems with a ULI onboard I switched to one of their cards instead.

 

It seems about the same in performance terms but a little extra time during boot for the cards BIOS to detect.

[CPDMF]

Highpoint makes the t2300 1X PCI-E card in a 4 port sata2, you will be limited to 250MB/sec using the 1X but that really only comes into effect with burst speeds of sata2.

 

I used the highpoint on my CFX3200 to get around the ULI bug.

[Lenny_Nero]

I have had quite a few Highpoint cards over the years (none SATA) and they have worked very well (even being able to boot from some), the only thing I have found is that PCI:e are often twice the price if not more

 

As for the speed thing I know that you do not loose anything with a PCI ATA card over a PATA, the SATA thing 'might' loose some burst speed, but these are just what I call salesman numbers as that is only the cache speed (max 8/16/32 MB).