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Syba SY-PEX40013 PCI Express SATA II 4x Ports RAID Controller Card, JMB Chipset

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Brand	Syba
Hardware Interface	SATA 6.0 Gb/s
Item Dimensions LxWxH	5.5 x 2 x 6.75 inches

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Compatible with PCI specifications
Supports Plug & play and hot Plug
Compliant with SATAII Specification Revision 1.1
Compliant with Gen2i, Gen2m SATA II electrical Specification Revision 1.0
Supports RAID 0/1/5/10/JBOD

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Product Description

Brings new life to any old desktop PC. Connects up to 4 SATA II High speed SATA hard disk drives. Supports Windows 8 and server 2012.

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Product Dimensions

5.5 x 2 x 6.75 inches

Item Weight

4 ounces

ASIN

B002OEBO78

Item model number

SY-PEX40013

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15 ratings

3.7 out of 5 stars

Date First Available

May 17, 2005

Manufacturer

Syba

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Jedidiah Mitchell

About What You Pay For

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2010

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This is about as cheap as you'll get for a functioning SATA add-on card. I use it to boost the number of critical SATA II plugs available on my motherboard, where the RAID controller I'm actually using is housed. As a result, I don't mind the slow bus speed, crappy RAID controller (though I haven't personally tried it), or the pair of SATA I plugs on this card. It's just handling a big lumbering storage drive and some DVD combo drives, which it does a fine job of. It takes a while to boot, but otherwise it works as advertised.

Still, this thing is CRAP. It uses an over-aggressive bus mastering service to boost transfer speeds on paper, which gives predictably shaky read/write speeds. The noise introduced to the South Bridge by the mastering also ruins my analog audio output, causing almost constant pops and dropouts, as well as occasional grinding stutters on all audio channels. I've thoroughly tested all configurations of my setup and identified this card as the source of the issues -- as you plug more devices into it, the noise gets worse.

It basically makes the machine unusable for media playback. I "solved" the problem by dropping in a much higher wattage PSU which seems to just steamroll over the noise by introducing a more consistent base-line power to the board, but you can still perceive some very low level pops during complex audio signals.

I would NOT recommend this card to anyone who wants professional or enthusiast level media functionality, but if you're just using it as a dumb HTPC / media server like I am and you don't mind overcoming the bus mastering then the lazy engineering is excusable for the price.

15 people found this helpful

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S. Wellborn

Almost perfect... Except for unRaid.

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2010

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I bought this to add more drives to my unRaid server and everything was going well till I tried to clear 1.5TB drives on the 3rd and 4th channels. I was averaging bandwidth of about 65MB/s on the other SATA drives. However, when I got to the drives on the 3rd and 4th channel, the speed dropped to about 6MB/s. This is an unacceptable speed for an array with large drives. Also the 3rd and 4th channels show up as IDE ports even though they have SATA connectors, which leads me to believe this card was originally designed with 2 SATA and an IDE port, and some where along the lines it got modified to have 4 SATA ports.

So if you are thinking about this card for an unRaid box, take a pass or only use the first 2 channels. It is a good price though!

12 people found this helpful

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V. Luu

Works with Windows 7 with the right driver

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2009

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This controller works as it should. I would have given 5 stars if the driver for Windows 7 was listed on the manufacturers website. It should also be noted that this SATA controller card has two SATA II ports on J1, J2 and two SATA I ports on J3, J4.

If anyone is looking for the Windows 7 driver for this controller, you can download it here (given by [...]): [...]

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A Mark

SYBA SY-PEX40013

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2010

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its fast and stable as controllor for a backup raid0 volume in win 7-64. but my BIOS doesn't see it so i wouldn't want to try installing a boot drive on it. If you want your bootable drive to be raid you're still gonna have to get a mobo w/ a southbridge chip that supports raid.

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Lawrence S. Sinanan

I was great for what I wanted it to do.

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2013

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I just needed 4 SATA ports and it did just that. The RAID on it was rubbish. For some reason it would not put 2 of my disks in AHCI mode but in my software RAID 5 this was a none issue.

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Jonathan Robert Roth

Works in WindowsXP

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2009

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Great way to hook up an additional SATA drive like the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB. Set up a ton of those drives and turn the box into a server with Windows Home Server ($99, available on amazon), just make sure your power supply has enough of the new power connectors for SATA drives, and you've got a powerful enough power supply to run all your drives at once.

Works fine with Windows XP.

4 people found this helpful

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M. Sattler

UNRAID Tower

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2012

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Ports are flaky at best. Besides the fact that the header of the product says 4 x SATA II, when in reality only 2 ports are SATA II, the other are SATA 1.

Stay away!

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Ted Spliethof

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2014

Verified Purchase

Works great with my SATA drives.

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Robby DD

funktioniert gerade mal in 1 von 3 getesteten Mainboards

Reviewed in Germany on July 15, 2013

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keine Kaufempfehlung

trotz aktuellster Treiber funktioniert dieser Controller nicht mit jedem Mainboard,
warum auch immer, schade eigentlich.

Bei 2 Mainboards kommen unterschiedlichste Fehler, von Nichterkennen
der Festplatte bis ultralangsamen Datenraten.
Standby-Probleme gibt es damit auch, weil danach der Controller unbrauchbar ist,
erst nachdem Neustart funktioniert dieser.

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Andi K.

Schöner und günstiger Controller

Reviewed in Germany on July 12, 2013

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Wenn man z. B. mit FreeNAS sich einen NAS-PC selber baut ist dieser voll in Ordnung da die Software FreeNAS das Raid selber steuert und der RAID-Controller nur als normaler SATA-Controller verwendet wird.
Zum Erweitern der SATA-Anschlüsse von 4 auf insgesammt 8 Ports ein super Preis für die Karte.

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