Check the SKU, for me, this was the retail SKU, so it comes with the SATA breakout cables.This is IMPORTANT because it is a proprietary cable that costs extra.The card and software seem reliable.The thing to know is that Hardware RAID may be more sensitive than software raid.Any flaky hard drives, such as those Seagate 7200.11 drives will cause your array to degrade.If 2 drop out at the same time, then you are in trouble.
The card has some RAID migration utilities, it works very well.Also, you want to enable the write cache.I made it safe by buying an external UPS, otherwise, you need to buy the internal battery.Both are around the same price so why not protect the whole PC.
With the write cache enabled, writing to it is very fast until the cache runs out, 64-256 MB?
There is an open bug with the firmware as of this writing 4/26/2009.A timed out drive may remain timed-out forever but I'm not sure it is degrade level bug.look it up on the AMCC web site.
RAID-6 is NOT available for this card, unfortunately, only on the models with more than 4 ports.
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