Re: Cheap and cheer full SATA controller

Using a STLabs PCIe card from PBTech ATM - works fine.
I've not used (external) eSATA much on my machines, and the few times I 
have I've had less-than-desirable experiences.

- J

On 11/11/13 21:58 , Stefan Schulz wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm still happily rocking on the (K)ubuntu 10.10 Maverick release (but 
> can upgrade if necessary). I need to get a 1TB SATA drive into one of 
> the the older systems which does not have native SATA support and 
> looking for a cheap controller. Nothing fancy.
> Currently looking at a a three port SATA (plus IDE which I don't need) 
> on a VIA VT6421A controller at around $20. Google has good and bad 
> reports of that chipset on Linux with the more recent once looking ok. 
> I don't need RAID and or boot capability.
>
> Any suggestions from real life users of this thing? OR similar cards?
>

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