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NCQ HDD & Host Card

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by M1CUZ, 2 Jun 2005.

  1. M1CUZ

    M1CUZ What's a Dremel?

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    Am looking at getting a couple of Maxtor Maxline III 300Gb drives soon and was wondering if anyone had any reccomendation for a good PCI host card to use with them.

    Preferably from a reputable manufacturer and ones that support NCQ etc. Not had much luck with a quick search of manufacturers sites myself so any help would be appreciated :)
     
  2. Austin

    Austin Minimodder

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    :confused: NCQ much like SATA-II's 300MB/s are over-rated. IMHO it doesn't make much sense to drop SATA HDs onto a PCI card unless you're desperate for more HDs (and have your PATA filled up). It will be nice when SATA add-in cards come in PCI-E form but a mobo with PCI-E is likely to have 2xPATA and 4xSATA which already offers up to 8 drives in total. Sorry I can't be of any specific help but that's some food for thought.
     
  3. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    I can't find any. If you don't care about NCQ, they're easy enough to find, and it doesn't do a whole lot right now. If you get a PCI-X (not PCIE) card, you may find something, and PCIX can "overhang" a PCI slot and just lose (a huge amount) of bandwidth. Not something I'd recommend really, but it could work. Like Austin, I'd recommend waiting until a PCIE card is available for that purpose assuming your mobo supports it.
     
  4. Jumeira_Johnny

    Jumeira_Johnny 16032 - High plains drifter

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    I think you are looking for this . They also have them in the PCI-X flavor, but not in PCI-E.
     

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