What is the overall best UDM/66 PCI card ot there?

[Reverend Maynard]

I have a HDD that can handle the UDMA/66 transfer rate, but my Soyo mainboard doesn't. So, what's the best card out there? And where can I get it? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

[Plmr]

I love my Promise Fasttrack..If you get it and another hd to match the one you have It will turn the two drives into 1 twice as big and twice as fast. My C drive puts out 36 megs a secound average sustained. Thats fast.
Matt

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Abit BF6, P3 600E AT 900, G400 32meg Dh ,Promise fasttrack striping 2 Quantum ka 18gig's + 2 10gig IBM's ,Sb-live platinum ,Cambridge Fps2000 speakers ,Onstream 30gig tape ,Sony cdrw ,toshiba dvd, Lotsa fans,cables ,noise....

[Jammrock]

The Highpoint UDMA 66 controller card is supposed to be faster and use less CPU than the Promise controller. I used to use one, the Abit Hot Rod 66, until I got an Athlon board with built in support. I definately got really good transfer rates on my Western Digital Experts (7200 RPM, UDMA 66) and even when the disks were going haywire I never had any slowdowns using any of my apps.

I saw a reveiw a long time ago in a galaxy far far away that compared the 2. The Highpoint was a bit faster and used a bit less CPU. Abit also uses this controller on their BE6, BP6 and the like series of motherboards.

Jammrock

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Athlon 650, Biostar board, 128 MB PC133 (Crucial), G400 32 MB DH, SB Live! w/ Digital I/O, 10/100 NIC, lots of case fans, etc...

[HollyBerri]

I have the Iwill SIDE Pro66 (Highpoint controller) and it has worked flawlessly from day 1. I have seen others on these boards have the occasional problem... but after my troubles with the Promise Ultra33 and what I've heard about the Promise Ultra66, I'm very glad I made a different choice.

And I got the card for some $22.50 (including shipping) on auction (Onsale, now Egghead) as well, which is about half the cost of the Promise, so there's another reason to be shopping around...

Good luck!

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Holly

Yeah, yeah, system specs, whatever...

DFI 2BXPL, Celeron 333@375, 2 sticks 128MB PC100 SDRAM, Maxtor 20GB HDD (woohoo!), Phillips Mag 107B 17" monitor;
Acer 10X DVD-ROM, HP 8100i CD-RW, Nakamichi 16X 5-disk changer;
G400 MAX , Diamond Monster Sound MX300, Iwill Ultra66 controller, Trend 10/100 Fast Ethernet controller, Cirrus Logic v.90 PCI modem;
USB webcam and Acer 620 USB scanner;
....and a PS/2 keyboard and mouse ( )



[This message has been edited by HollyBerri (edited 09 March 2000).]

[moreau]

But, the Ultra66 can be converted to a fasttrak 66, with a little chutzpah.

[Reverend Maynard]

Thanks all. Looks like Highpoint is the way to go. I'll have to order one tonight. Thanks again.