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 Easy to install and upgrade older system June 13, 2009
M. Lucash (Johnson City, TN USA)
I used this to add larger drives to my old system that would not support them. Installed the card, attached the drives, and then installed the O/S.
Worked fine and allowed me to get a few more years of life out of an old system.
 DOES NOT WORK WITH OPTICAL DRIVES! December 12, 2006
TheKorn (Chicago, IL.)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a KNOWN FAULT of this controller that it DOES NOT WORK with optical drives. It *ONLY* works with hard drives, and promise doesn't let people know this ahead of time!
JUNK! Stay away!!
Outstanding when used for intended purpose September 10, 2006
It Works (Mainland Desert, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This product is outstanding when used properly. It's not a "Raid" card, so don't fault it for that. And it's not a SATA controller, so don't slam it for not being what it isn't. The card is a "PCI IDE Controller" card. It is intended to boost the IDE PATA controller transfer rates of older systems from 33mbs to 100mbs, thus allowing the full use of newer ATA-100mbs hard drives in older slower computers. For that intended use, it works superbly. (It also increases the performance of ATA-66 hard drives in ATA-33 computers.) I did not buy the one product listed here for sale "used" because the shipping costs made the price non-competitive, but the product itself is great. It made a new hard drive in my old P-II 233 computer blazing fast compared to the original ATA-33 hard drive.
Beware of the description! This is NOT a RAID controller. July 21, 2005
Steven L. Rosen (Foxboro, MA USA)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
The description for this item (as of 7/21/05) is incorrect, according to Promise Technology's web site (which I really should have checked before I ordered this card and tried to install it), this card only functions as a PCI to ATA 2 channel controller, it has no RAID functionality whatsoever. The descrptions of RAID functions seem to be describing the Promise Technology Fasttrack 100TX2 card. I've notified Amazon about this error, and if they change the description thus saving others from the aggrivation I had, then kindly ignore this review.
Ultimate performance and improvement in my computer speed January 16, 2005
Harshal (Irving,TX)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I ordered this product because I did nto want to upgrade my desktop with all new mobo and stuff. Bought a 200GB HD during Thanksgiving for only 40 bucks and was not able to be detected by my Win ME/Trigent Cognac mobo (HP XG838 machine. ) Added this card and now motherboard recognizes the HD with proper size.
When I got this card its firmware was already latest. Installed WinXP Pro and now my 800MHz celeron/256MB Machine boots in less than 1 minute. It was a good buy for just 30 dolllars and also got my points with Amzon visa card. I certainly recommend this product who are still using old machines and want to put high capacity drives.
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