Silicon Image Ultra DMA 133

I haven't used one but know a little about them... It's just that Silicone Image is a cheaper brand who produce other oem hardware as well. Depending on your budget and requirements, I would only suggest this card if you're looking for a cheap solution and are in need now, while being willing to upgrade later, otherwise I would suggest a PROMISE Raid card or an Adaptec, which will run you a little less than the Promise withought compromising any quality.. I mean, unless you can simply upgrade your motherboard which is ideal.

Well, I wouldn't say its that big of a decrease in performance, since its simply a RAID contoller nonetheless (though check speeds in comparison... what is the transfer rate supported on that Silicon card?). But the quality of the parts in comparison is noticeable; and chances are the software and ease of installation too. Otherwise, its a pretty basic piece of hardware, and if you don't mind screwing around a little, I guess its fine.

Silicon Image is fine. This chip competes with another from Highpoint, the Highpoint is a bit better but both are good enough to be included on some top quality motherboards. So putting them on a PCI card instead doesn't make a lot of difference, they are still decent, inexpensive controllers.

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It will do the job as long as it has boot BIOS, which I believe it does. Simply set the motherboard to boot off "SCSI" first, because motherboards treat IDE cards as SCSI cards.

Of course you could always try to find an updated BIOS for your motherboard to support your new drive.

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