PCI Express has come into our PC industry with huge promises and yes, it has delivered. A single PCI Express x1 lane can deliver double the bandwidth of the PCI bus and it's point to point, no sharing ...

I'm planning on expanding storage in my Debian home server and was wondering if someone here could recommend a PCIe SATA controller card. Some details follow: 1) At minimum I'll be needing to connect ...

I'm looking for an SATA controller card (PCI or PCI-E) that fully supports optical drives. The SATA controllers on my motherboard (Intel ICH7R and Marvell 88SE6145) support reading CDs, DVDs, and ...

StarTech.com releases two new SATA 6Gbps RAID controller cards featuring Marvell chipset with HyperDuo embedded technology, enabling the performance of Solid State Drives at standard HDD capacity ...

Need to add some serious speed and flexibility to your desktop or workstation? If you have a spare PCIe slot, LSI has the tool for you. It's the second-generation MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID controller ...

Unfortunately, outside of using expansion cards, there's not a lot you can do if you wish to add a few more SATA drives to ...

For a couple of years now we've been graced with video cards capable of using every last drop of bandwidth provided by the PCIe 2.0 interface. The problem is that high end GPUs were pretty much the ...

Marvell's demos show that its HyperDuo hybrid storage controller is a great way to get the best out of your computer's storage. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has ...

HighPoint’s new RocketRAID 2522 is a Serial ATA (SATA) controller card for PCI Express (PCIe)-equipped Mac Pros and Power Mac G5s (as well as Windows PCs). The device costs $260. The card features ...

If you weren't paying attention during the end of the year build-up to CES 2014, you may have missed LSI's relatively quiet announcement of their new SandForce SF3700 PCIe SSD controller. Okay, so ...

Other World Computing (OWC) on Wednesday introduced a new Serial ATA (SATA) controller card for Power Mac systems equipped with PCI and PCI-X expansion slots. The card costs $49.95. OWC’s new card is ...

Essentially, the Standard SATA AHCI Controller driver, just like every other device driver, is also important since the hard disk is connected to your computer through this driver. The SATA AHCI ...