HELP!!: Non-Raid PCI SATA 2x150 Add-On Card
 

Does anyone have a NON-RAID PCI SATA add on card that they use which has worked relatively well?

I'm planning on buying 2x500 GB SATA Seagate Hard drives during this holiday season. Please let me know. Thanks.

These things just don't work. They saturate your PCI bus on high loads which pretty much interferes with every component that wants to put data on the system bus at the time.

Don't bother with an add-on card and just spend the little extra money on a new motherboard that has a proper built-in SATA controller.

At this time, getting a new motherboard is a waste. I will be getting one within the next two years when I build a new computer.

I just need an upgrade in internal storage, preferably that can hold 2 SATA DATA drives, not system drives.

Thanks for the help though, Cetra.

LAST & FINAL bump.

I have to ask why you want a non-RAID card specifically. You don't HAVE to use an SATA card's RAID features if you don't want to, which is good, since I don't see a single non-RAID card on Newegg at the moment, and I don't really trust the software behind the cheap cards anyways.

Since all of the cheap SATA cards use the same handful of chipsets, you really might as well get a cheaper 2-port card and roll with it. This might work for you.

I recommend "Promise SATA300 TX4". I have this one installed in a HTPC, currently only connected to one optical drive. The controller is going to drive a 750GB RAID1 array after christmas (software-RAID through the linux kernel).

I thought with a raid card you would automatically have to use it. So if you don't have to, then it would work for me. The one you posted is the one I have been looking at and reading reviews on. I just wanted an outside opinion that has experience with these cards & more knowledge then I do.

I just want to add on 2x500 GB SATA hard drives and not use them in raid.