IOCrest SATA II 4 x PCI RAID Host Controller Card SY-PCI40010

Nice older device. Another person said that they use it for their DVD drive and that is exactly why I purchased it. Made use of the older unused pci port and it works great for the DVD writer. Far faster than what is necessary and it does not unnecessarily take up a pcie port. Easy to install and Windows 10 took care of installing and configuring drivers automatically. 100% recommended.

I tried these cards in 2 different SuperMicro MB and neither placement works. I did some investigation and it appears I am getting PCI parity errors when I issue a command. So I do not recommand the use of 3124 chips yet

I got this when I needed a few more SATA ports for my drive pool on my home server, since my system board only has 6 SATA ports, and I needed 7 for the 3 TB drives I have for the data side of things.Googled for the 64 bit windows 2008 drivers, found them easily enough, downloaded and installed, and was instantly recognized, no reboot needed.Got the drivebender software to recognize the extra two 3TB drives and added them to the pool right away.Only problem I had was that despite having no RAID enabled, not being set to boot, it still interrupted my reboot cycles on my system. My system bios was set to boot only from the CD or the first SATA drive on the system board, so nowhere in the BIOS was this even showing as an option, yet it would hang as soon as the boot process enumerated the drives on it. Only way around it was to hit the key to force the boot device option during the POST, and then pick the drive that the BIOS was set to default to anyway. Then it booted fine.I tried updating the firmware on the card, since there was a newer version out there, but that made no difference either. I finally then tracked down a newer version for my Atom D525 based board, and after flashing it, now I can boot without intervention, which is handy since this home server sits headless in my basement, just a power cable and network cable attached to it. Was a pain to go down there and temporarily hook up a monitor and keyboard if i wanted to bounce it.Now that I've worked through that, it's been working just fine. I can't attest to the RAID options since I'm using a different product to pool all of my drives, but it works fine as a standard SATA controller for me.

This is a 32-bit universal 3.3v and 5v PCI card.No information was available to determine whether this is a PCI v2.1 card. If so, we can run the card at 66MHz and enjoy a maximum of (66 * 32) /8 = 264 MB/s theoretical data rate from this card (given that our MOBO's PCI is v2.1). If the card is below PCI v2.1 then we can only run the card at 33MHz and get a max of (33 * 32) / 8 = 132 MB/s theoretical data rate.Since this is a 32-bit card you should not mix it with a 64-bit card on the same PCI bus or you will slow the entire bus to a 32-bit data width at the frequency that this card runs at. PCI is a shared bus technology. That means you could potentially limit the entire bus to only 132 MB/s in the worst case thus forcing all of your PCI cards to share a maximum data rate of only 132 MB/s.SATA II has a theoretical data rate of 300 MB/s. In practice you should connect no more than a single SATA II drive to this card due to the limitations of the underlying bus technology (PCI). The only sensible use case for this card is to run it at 66MHz (i.e., if it is PCI v2.1) and attach ONLY ONE SATA II drive to the card. That gives you theoretically only 264 MB/s as state previously.If the card is not PCI v2.1, the only sensible use case is to connect a single SATA I drive to the card. In this case the drive is actually faster than the card topping out at a max of 150MB/s theoretical data rate vs. the 132 MB/s capability of the card.The absolute best use case for the card is to go into your BIOS, disable the horrendously slow option ROM scan and run the card at 66MHz. Ensure ONLY ONE SATA II drive is connected to the card because you aren't going to get one iota of performance improvement if you connect another drive. In fact, you will get much less throughput per drive with each additional drive you attach to this card. Attach the remaining drives of your RAID array to motherboard headers and use the software raid implementation for your operating system. With a good CPU and memory, software RAID is just as fast as option ROM based RAID management.In Debian Linux, the card is recognized even without an option ROM scan so you can completely scrap the option ROM and just go with mdadm. This will bypass the 2TB/drive limit as well which gives you the freedom to use much higher capacity drives with this card.

Documentation and support is nonexistent. The chipset is an stone age Silicon Image 3124 which normally wouldn't be an issue, but thereis the little problem of SI not being around anymore and Lattice Semiconductor doesn't support SI legacy. My problem stems from the fact that out of the box this is flashed for RAID only, I got that but I bought this card with the understanding it will function as a pass through SATA adapter. Now the problem starts as the "Drivers and utilities" disk that comes with it is very thin in the D&U department. So after finding several forums with people having the same issue with the SI chipset I found a link to an alternate firmware that would allow the card to perform as I wanted. So I flashed the BIOS with the b5403.bin file using the SiFlashTool.exe command line executable, got success after the flash and rebooted into a different POST menu. Except now when I try to enter the BIOS config it give a no device found error and dumps back to my MB POST. Windows shows a generic SCSI adapter with no drivers loaded in device manager, but wont allow any drivers to be loaded. SiFlashTool.exe now cannot detect the card regardless of command line switches used.

Con esta tarjeta pude agregar mas disco duros y hacerlos en RAID 0 pero desde windows ya que el software de la arjeta me limita la capacidad del RAID, solo tener contemplado eso. POr los demas cumple las expectativas

Ca ne marchait pas avec Windows 7, impeccable sur Linux. Vu qu'on peut faire du RAID5 logiciel, à quoi bon une carte ?

Works great. Product is exactly as described

Ho acquistato questa scheda per un vecchio PC, basato su CPU AMD Athlon XP, già dotato di SATA su scheda madre, ma con BIOS RAID che non mi occorreva. Questa mi ha permesso il flash del BIOS IDE non-RAID, inoltre supportando SATA II i dispositivi collegati (es. un HD SSD) hanno guadagnato qualcosa in prestazioni, grazie al supporto di funzionalità come il NCQ (Native Command Queueing). Il bus PCI è comunque limitante, ma il guadagno che mi interessava l'ho ottenuto. A differenza di altri commenti che ho letto, la mia scheda permette il boot da SSD (un disco della Kingston). Anche quella che ho ricevuto ha la scatola IOQUEST ma il prodotto è equivalente. L'ultimo BIOS si scarica dal sito di Silicon Image insieme ai driver/utilità più recenti.

La placa base mini-ITX de mi server doméstico sólo tenía 2 satas. Quería añadir 2 más para más añadir HDs. sin cambiar la placa. Compré una controladora PCI mucho más barata pero nunca conseguí que fuese reconocida por el Ubuntu Server ni por otras distribuciones Linux. Con esta otra de Sybe, más cara eso sí, la compatibilidad es total. Lla detectó sin problema desde el primer momento, tanto la bios como en el sistema operativo. Por lo tanto, solucionó mi problema de añadir satas, tanto en windows (comprobado) como con otras distribuciones de Linux. Recomiendo mirar la compatibilidad antes de comprar, no sólo el precio. Es mi experiencia personal.