Date 2005-02-09
Provider: Vantec
Author: GooGeL
Editor: Princess Ammie
Vantec Serial ATA PCI Host Card
Testing:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Socket 939
Abit AV8 with BIOS version 1.7 and VIA 4in1 v4.55 drivers
Corsair 512MB PC3200XL v1.1
Asus V9999TD 6800 128MB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB S-ATA 8MB cache 7200RPM
Lite-ON 40x12x48 CD-RW
OCZ PowerStream 520W
I will be using HD Tach v3.01 to test the card, and the results are compared versus the onboard SATA controller on the Abit AV8.
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The Vantec controller card at the left and the onboard to the right.
Well there isn't much to say because the Vantec controller card falls behind a bit at burst speed. However it uses less CPU power than the onboard controller. Actually, it doesn't use any CPU power at all!
I benchmarked it 6 times and I had the same result every time.
Conclusion:
I would say that this product is good for those people who still have an old motherboard with no SATA ports, and are going to buy a new hard drive anyways because their old one broke.
So, they can buy one of these cards for a small amount of money and a new Serial ATA hard drive which can be used for sure after an upgrade of your old computer.
That's a better choice than buying an old Parallel ATA hard drive in my opinion.
Or else maybe you just need a cheap Serial ATA controller card for your external SATA hard drive, or just another SATA port for that really small HTPC.
Pros:
+ Good performence
+ Really easy installation
+ Supports both standard and low-profile PCI installation
+ Both external and internal Serial ATA ports
+ Good bundle package
+ Cheap
Cons:
- Only one internal SATA port
- No raid support
- No Linux support
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