Upgrade your system by expanding two extra internal Serial ATA ( e-SATA ) ports and 2 external e-SATA ports with this Plug and Play PCI controller card
Product DescriptionPCI Interface Compliant with PCI-X 1.0a specification Interface 33 MHz operation Supports PCI 2X mode and PCI native modes Complies with PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2.2 Serial ATA Interface >Backward compatible with Serial ATA specification Revision 1.0 Supports 4 independent SATA ports Support data transfer rate up to 3 GB/s (SATA II) Connectors: internal Serial ATA II (SATA 2) ports 2 external e-SATA II ports Package includes PCI Serial SATA II 4 Channel (2 external / 2 internal) Controller Card Driver CD User Manual Supports Windows 2000 / Server 2003 / XP / XP 64-Bit / Vista, and Linux OS
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Rating: - false advertising
The Amazon specs say "Support 32-bit at 66 MHz and 64-bit at 133 MHz". This is a lie. This is not a 64-bit PCI card (which would be twice as long), but a 32-bit PCI card. Just look at the Amazon picture, then look up PCI on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect) and you'll see that this card is indeed 32-bit PCI.
Also, it does not run at 66 MHz. The box clearly says, "Support 32-bit at 33MHz". To run at 66 Mhz it would need to support 3.3 volts, ... Read More
Rating: - Faultless
I needed this card in order to run an external SATA drive, on a system that did not have built in SATA interface. It installed easily and ran perfectly. I was up and running in under 10 minutes.