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AC Ryan SATA+ATA PCI Combo Card ACR-SA5514

Storage/Other by jmke @ 2003-10-29

We test a PCI SATA controller from ACRyan. Allowing you to connect 2 SATA hard drives to any system that has a free PCI slot. Does it perform better or worse then an onboard solution? We installed it and let you know.

Installation

Installation:

The installation is really straightforward:

Power down your PC

Open up your case

Plug in the PCI card in a free slot

Close your case and power on the system

You're done!

To make life for us, reviewers, a little easier we decided to work in a case-less environment:
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Once you power on the system you will see a new screen appear after the usual BIOS messages. By pressing Ctrl+S or F4 during the time the message below is on the screen you will end up in the configuration of the PCI Raid card.

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Here you can define your RAID0/RAID1 setup, rebuild an existing RAID1 drive array, check for problems and perform a low level format on one of the hard drives connected to the controller. The menu is very straight forward and easy to use. (If you are looking for more information concerning RAID please take a look here)

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Let's see how it performs ->