Rosewill RC-220 Silicon Image PCI 2 x eSATA 1.5G non-RAID Controller Card Also includes an additional Low Profile Size PCI Bracket

You never know about these Rosewill products. Some are excellent, like this card, others can be a little shaky. I've found it's a good idea to go to their site and read the users guide, if it's available. The descriptions can be a little misleading. I...

Easy install. Very good transfer speeds for a PCI card. Can turn off SATA BIOS so it won't increase boot time. Like that

None so far

VERY difficult to find a ESATA PCI card

Transfer rates are no better than USB 2.0 -- consistently less than 25 MB/s on my quad-core Dell. EXTREMELY disappointing

Ordering another one for more esata goodness.

Ordered one ; Put it into a PCI-X slot / Older dell workstation / XP ; No problem ; Thx to "WT from CT" for his review ; Using with x2 2TB Ext. Fantom Drives

Knocked egg off for driver/download confusion. RC-220 is not easily found on website. Used site specific google search

Works with Ubuntu Server 10.04LTS in my Atom D510 box. Very happy that I upgraded my external drive from USB, drive is much faster, lower CPU load, more stable

Not SATA 3G

If you want to boot to an eSATA drive with ESXi installed on it...great! If you want a backup solution for Windows OS then use this card and connect an external eSATA drive.

Inexpensive eSata device recognized by VMWare ESXi for VMWare DirectPath use. Was able to install VMWare ESXi on eSATA drive as well. Very surprised and it worked flawlessly thru much testing

PCI card only so not supported by higher end servers due to voltage requirements

I installed 2 cards in a Win XP SP3 machine quickly and with no drama. I copied five files totaling 8.4GB from a eSATA-connected Fantom 2TB external HD to my internal drive in 3:03 minutes:seconds. The same files copied from a USB 2.0-connected Maxtor...

Easy installation, read/write speeds vs. USB 2.0 nearly three times faster

A card with four connectors would have been better

I was not as lucky when I got another PCI SATA card earlier. I remember it used different voltage and there is a divider in the slot so that the card can not fit in. I will remember to pay attention there. On the other hand, it is nice to know that PCI...

looking to find some cheap solution to add extra storage. This one works fine in PCI-X slot in a HP. get good speed frm external SATA drive. Card is recognized by CENTOS 5.0 without driver installation. I can hot plug it and the drive is recognized...

Wish it is of higher speed

Purchase Roswill RC-220 and Fantom GD1000EU instead of using USB or Firewire and feel the speed.

Own (5) of these items. eSATA is awesome and is much faster than the old IDE/E-IDE data transfers. Use these cards in desktops and purchase external 1TB Fantom eSATA hard drives to backup data for myself and all my customers

NONE

Thank you to those who take the extra time to explain some things, like pins with 'Boot 1-2' and 'No Boot 2-3' on the card. It really helps us not so techy folks. I'm so happy I got this working.

It's working nicely with my external esata hard drive. I bought the pci ex card first and it did not work with my shuttle pc in the ex X16 slot (Monitor wouldn't work), so I'm happy this one works in the pci slot, it boots up and then sees my external...

Instructions--I found out more information here

The fact that the supplied drivers don't work, the downloaded drivers don't work and the low transfer speeds make this a card to give a miss to.

It is very easy to change to the low profile bracket

This drivers on the CD that came with the card did not work with my Windows Vista Home system, neither did the driver that I downloaded from the Rosewill website. When I let Windows search online for a driver it appeared to find one ; Once a driver was...