Comments on: PCI, PCI-X, 3.3V, 5V. HUH?

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:23:04 +0000

Thanks for this, I’ve spent 3 days trying to get this to work until I stumbled upon this post. Unfortunately all I have are 3 PCI-X slots, so I have to get a new card, but at least I can stop wasting my time.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:30:37 +0000

Just figured I would post a general update here. Its been a year and I’m still running with this exact same configuration, virtually maintenance free. Biggest issue I had was sys admins inadvertently knocking the eSATA cable loose. My OS data is not on these drives so the OS didn’t crash and I just had to plug them back in and remount and we were running again with no reboot. Definitely getting our bang for the buck.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:41:53 +0000

I expect the card will work with your motherboard. The notch location in your motherboard PCI slot indicates it is a 5V slot and this is a 5V card. I tested with server 2003 x32. I don’t know about 64 bit driver support. I would recommend looking into that.