Sabrent SBT-SRD4 Silicon Image RAID Native Serial ATA 4 Ports PCI Controller Host Card Adapter

by Sabrent

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HJ99N8
• Item model number: SBT-SRD4
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 2, 2004

Product Description

SABRENT SBT-SRD4 Silicon Image RAID Native Serial ATA (SATA-150) 4 Ports PCI Controller Host Card Adapter Add 4 Serial ATA Ports to your desktop! Add Reliable Proven 1,500Mbps of Serial ATA 4 Ports and RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 1+S(Mirrored-Sparing) to your system This PCI Host Adapter can upgrade your desktop computer to have four Serial ATA RAID Channels. RAID 0 (Striping), RAID 1 (Mirroring), RAID 0+1 (mirrored-stripping) and RAID 1+S (Mirrored-Sparing) improve the data performance and provide the data redundancy and rebuilding. Specifications: Provides 2 Brackets to Support Low profile PCI and Regular size PCI in one card 48 bits LBA can Break Capacity-Limit to Support HDD larger than 137GB Four high speed Serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st generation Serial ATA data rates 1.5Gb/s Hot-plug capability Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.5G specifications Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives RAID 0+1 (Mirrored-Stripping) combine both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring RAID 1+S (Mirrored-sparing) can automatically replace the failed drive and rebuild the system when booting HDD is failed Supports ATAPI commands Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver Independent 256-byte FIFOs (32 bit * 64 deep) per Serial ATA channel for host reads and writes Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2 Integrated PCI DMA engines Four Pin header on board for LED connection 32 bit, 33/66MHz fully compliant PCI host interface Supports Windows 98, Windows Millennium, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Linux, Novell Netware Acts as NON-RAID when not BIOS configured RAID

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Old Firmware doesn't support Seagate 1TB, February 22, 2009

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N. Young (Coeur d'Alene, ID) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sabrent SBT-SRD4 Silicon Image RAID Native Serial ATA 4 Ports PCI Controller Host Card Adapter (Personal Computers)

I bought this controller to support a single new Seagate 7200.11 1TB SATA drive.
I had no intention of using it in a RAID configuration.

As delivered the card would not recognise the drive and my
PC would not boot, hanging at the SATA disk detection screen.
This card comes with some pretty old Silicon Image firmware.
Googling I discovered that there is much newer firmware available
from SII. I downloaded the current non-RAID firmware from SII
but it wouldn't install from win XP. I finally managed to install
the new firmware by setting up a USB stick to boot the PC into
FreeDOS, then flashing the new firmware from DOS.

The card now detects the Seagate drive and works correctly
except for one issue: If I cold-boot the PC with a reset or power
cycle all is well, but if I issue a re-start from winXP the card
will still hang at the disk detect screen. This is only a minor
annoyance, however.

Overall the card is cheap and it does work but only when upgraded
to current firmware.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No hassle installation with seamless operation, January 3, 2007

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R. Lackey "Bob" (SE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sabrent SBT-SRD4 Silicon Image RAID Native Serial ATA 4 Ports PCI Controller Host Card Adapter (Personal Computers)

Thanks to the simple, no conflict operation of these Serial ATA PCI Controllers, I now run 10, 500 GB hard drives in my server, with all exhibiting excellent performance and no problems to date. I would recommend these to anyone requiring RAID configurations or massive storage needs. Kudos!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does not work with Linux, March 13, 2009

By 

Alex Van Buskirk (Newport Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sabrent SBT-SRD4 Silicon Image RAID Native Serial ATA 4 Ports PCI Controller Host Card Adapter (Personal Computers)

Linux support is listed, but could not make work on my system (Fedora 10 x86_64). The driver cd was a mess (disorganized), and targeted at building support into a 2.4 kernel. My 2.6 kernel has module support for the chipset on the card (Silicon Image 2114), but got no signs that the card was even connected. Returned.