3tb Internal Hard Drive Mac Pro

SIL3124 chipset with PCI-Express Interface. Compliant with PCI Express Specification Revision 1.0a. 1-Lane (x1) PCI Express with transfer rate 2.5 Gb/s Full Duplex channel. Fully Plug & Play compatible. Supports Raid function 0, 1, 5, 10. SATA II Interface. Integrated Serial ATA Link and PHY logic. Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 and Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0 Specifications. Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0 Gb/s. Supports Serial ATA II: Port Multiplier 1.0 Specifications. Backward compatible to SATA 1.0 Specification. Supports four independent Serial ATA channels. Independent Link, Transport, and data FIFO. Independent command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution. Supports Legacy Command Queuing (LCQ). Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ). Supports Non-zero offsets (NCQ). Supports out of order data delivery NCQ. Supports FIS-based switching with Port Multipliers. Driver supported MS Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Linux, Mac OS 10.4x, Red Hat Linux 8.0.9.0, SuSE Linux 8.1, 8.2,United Linux 1.0

Brand: Syba Model: SY-PEX40008 Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.40" w x 6.50" l, Driver supported MS Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Linux, Mac OS 10.4x, Red Hat Linux 8.0.9.0, SuSE Linux 8.1, 8.2,United Linux 1.0

Most helpful customer reviews 14 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Works out of the box By Joshua Hattersley This is a great addition for anyone looking to add more SATA devices to their computer. I personally needed more ports to accommodate more hard drives in my newly-installed SATA backplane, and didn't want to use port multiplier technology due to concerns over bandwidth constraints. This card is PCIe 1x and works like a charm; I'm running under Ubuntu 9.04, and literally didn't need to perform any setup beyond installing the card and plugging in my drives. The featured SIL3124 chipset is widely supported, which is one of the reasons I went for this model.Good price, great value--why get a card with anything less than four ports if you're going to install one anyway?--and works like a charm. Highly recommended. Note that the card also supports RAID functionality, but I'm not using it as I've already got a software RAID running via mdadm under Linux. 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. works fine, a bit expensive By Sam First of all, this is not a real (HW) raid card, raid functions are implemented in the driver. For me that is OK, I did not need it for that. I am using this card under Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) for a software raid array with the Linux kernel software raid (mda), NOT using the drivers by Silicon Image. I actually flashed the non-raid bios available from Silicon Image's site and you should too unless you want to use their raid drivers.Building the same array (same drives, same kernel, same everything) using the SATA ports on the motherboard (FoxConn 785G) resulted in constant failures of the array. Switching to a Gigabyte MB made things better, but still not perfect. With this card I have zero failures for weeks. So as a 4 ports PCIe SATA card, it works like a charm with recent Linux kernels.The biggest negative is that it is way too expensive for what it is good for. It should sell around $30 like the PCI (non PCIe) cards from the same manufacturer with the same chipset do. Strangely I found Amazon to be cheapest, even if not by much. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. RAID **BEWARE** By Michael Cole I swear by Sil cards as they have worked flawlessly for me in the past (have 6 running in older machines). This one came with a BIOS from 2006 - and it failed to boot my existing OS. Standard procedure is as follows: 1. install the card. 2. Boot the machine. 3. install the driver. 4. reboot the machine. 5. shut down machine, move the SATA cable to the RAID card (ID0 is the second connector from the face - 1 | 0 | 2 | 3). 6. Turn on the machine. The card is suppose to work even if the motherboard BIOS fails to recognize it, however, all I kept getting was failure. Flashed the bios to the latest 2010 version. Rebooted and all was well.BEWARE** if you do not feel comfortable performing a command line BIOS update, this is not the card for you. See all 12 customer reviews...