The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

The 1st card I got was bad, Don't know about the second one . But WinXP Recognizes it
How would one go about checking it ( the card )
As far as HDD and cables go all is well and Drive is Recognize when directly connected to the Motherboard
It will not Recognize either 2T Drive I've got. Gonna try a 1T next

 

omegaman7 : MONDAY I'll check with Roswell and Samsung to see what the problem is
in the mean time can You recommend a SATTA card with 4 connections that will definitely work
I'm going to need another card anyway for my other build. But I do need 4 SATA Lines
Also a link PLEASE

 

I've had a dead PCIe S-ATA card as well, same issue, wouldn't recognise any drives, just send it back, you get DOA ones from time to time as they're quite cheap, and presumably aren't QCed.

 

What are the odds of getting 2 in a row..Like I posted earlier WinXP recolonized it. But neither my Samsung 2-2Ts and WD 1T NOT recolonized
What would be an alternate 4 PLUG sata card rather then the Roswell
Newegg Revues show a pretty postive to this card

 

So you bought two cards and both are dead? Bad batches sometimes happen, typically if one product from many is bad, the others often are too. Rosewill isn't a real brand, it's just a covering that says newegg bought an OEM product from another manufacturer. I think Rosewill S-ATA cards are the same as the Newlink ones I bought.

 

sammorris : How do you interpret Dead, Win XP RECOGNIZES IT
I also talked to the ROSWELL Teck, so they have to be ROSWELL CARDS. Came in a roswell box

 

Same as you have. Windows recognises the card, but the card doesn't detect any drives.
Also, since it's an OEM product, Newegg (i.e. Rosewill) are responsible for the packaging, so they make the box. It's usually a Silicon Image OEM product.
Also, it's Rosewill not Roswell.

 

Rick, I wish I could be of more help. I've never owned a sata card. I desperately want one or more, and more hard drives than I can handle But it's not practical right now. If I were to buy a sata card, I would no doubt make it a promise card. I've heard good things about them, despite some of them having bad reviews. Promise seems to be the most revered in the forums Promise is to sata controllers, Evga is to video cards, Western Digital is to Hard drives, etc.

I realize that the Promise cards are expensive, but we do get what we pay for eh

Defective products can cause tiny bugs, and be fine for months, before they bite it hard. If your card is not working the way it should, I would return it. The Rosewill card you linked, has the 48-bit Logical Block Addressing, which allows for sizes over 137gb. I don't know what the limit of that addressing is. I think it may be exactly 2Tb. Don't quote me on that though It seems like I read somewhere that its more an OS limitation after 2Tb. I wonder if Windows 7 addresses that issue. Not that 2Tb drives aren't sufficient

 

Not really a valid analogy. I can't speak for Promise, but both the other companies have had severe QC problems in the past with certain products, neither of them are foolproof top tier brands (and before you ask, there isn't such a brand for hard disks).

 

LOL! Simply my opinion on what I've come across in the forums. Not only afterdawn, but forums like Tomshardware, even newegg reviews.

"and before you ask, there isn't such a brand for hard disks"
What do you mean by that?

 

There is no hard disk brand so reliable you can always buy from them and have perfect peace of mind.

 

Ha ha, of course. I've seen countless bad reviews for western digital. And I have had 2 of their drives act like they were going out. One was replaced rapidly, and the other was bought off ebay, so I won't be able to replace that one LOL! I suppose there's no perfect product. But machines don't make mistakes, humans do. If you get me

 

Anyone else been having trouble with AD lately?

 

since this new change over i havent been able to login at some places,(work,library,ect) and some times from home i get the same thing you posted... one of the reasons i havent been around much.. no sense in trying to post when i cant get in.

 

Haha agreed. Remember the mass of Evga cards with blown caps? I do. I had two of them One 7600GT that lasted 11 months and the replacement that lasted 6 XD

Same for HDDs. Seen dead ones from every brand. Actually more WDs than anything but only because there are so many and they were old Still have to say the slimline style Seagates are my favorite. Not sure about reliability but man they do run cool

 

Only problem I've had lately was trying to add a picture to my profile. I can't seem to find WHERE to add pics LOL!
For the most part, afterdawn is loading fine for me.

 

Omega, settings(top of the page near where you log in), edit profile, upload pictures

Other than that yeah AD is loading just fine here. Seem to remember regular issues with Firefox earlier in the site's history but not for a long while...

 

LOL! I swear that wasn't there recently. Honest...

 

No issues with aD here lately. As for the Seagate drives, most of them were pretty bombproof, but Seagate's worst times were recent, as are Samsung's, as also have been some of WDs. If anything, HDDs in general are a lot less reliable than a few years ago.

 

Which is pretty disgusting if you ask me. I would rather spend 1,000$ on a drive that's damn near guaranteed to not fail, then 100$ on a drive that could quit a few years down the road. HDD's are highly important pieces of equipment. It's quite discouraging to read multiple bad reviews when searching for a means for archival of important data

Which is why Raid 1 is a beauty I'll likely be using it one day...