Does this card allow for smart warnings from hard drives?
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I assume you mean can external USB drives send out SmartDrive warnings when connected via this USB Card(?) and have the built-in Windows drive monitoring notify you that drive errors are occurring? My own hunch says "no" because Windows sees anything attached to a USB port to be such a wide variety of things (music player, printer, cameras, you name it) that it does not listen for specifically drive error reports. The answer I find when I Googled that is that many of the USB drives have internal drive controllers onboard that don't send out the SmartDrive signals - what I think you would need is a software program that you would install on your computer and would allow you to ask the USB drive for its SmartDrive status. Hope that helps!
391634
Yes, I'm using it for the same reason (add extra sata ports). You can disable the raid.
457485
Absolutely, I read and right to it every day using this adaptor. Check you hard drive permission settings.
1920442
Very unlikely unless you have a SATA to mSATA adapter which can cause data integrity issues
1330290
Yes, the Interface card has connectors on it that accept standard SATA drives for power and SATA connector
843
Not that I am aware of. I just use it to transfer files as needed then disconnect it.
51400
Yes, however I dont recomend this product, I use Mybook Studio by WD, I had a Seagate and it totally crashed they are too too sensitive.
186073
The unit comes with a software utility that will alert you to a problem drive. There is also a light on the front panel that indicates a drive failure and indicator lights for the individual drives. This has all worked fine for me with the exception of one drive that was damaged in such a way it hung the Mediasonic unit.
845470
I have had no issues using the IDE channel on this card with hard disks, but have not used it with optical drives.
45078
I haven't tested it but it appears that it will do it because both my drives have data on them.
1889380
Not really. It reads usb drive. Maybe that's what's sort of smart about it.
1180656
I am not sure if it is true, but I read (perhaps in another review) that these are OEM drives for PC manufacturers, and hence they are not warrantied to the end user, but instead through the PC manufacturer. If you read other reviews, it is mentioned that they might be pulled from servers and the SMART data wiped. That said, I have ordered 4 of these and haven't had any complaints yet after a few months.
474736
it gives u usb 2 ports. i wouldn't try to run hard disks from these ports, the only power is usb power
1795101
Yes, otherwise the card won't be seen by the OS when you start up. The card has worked flawlessly for me (Win8.1 Pro x64), and the drivers are recent from the company website.
1230812
I am not sure it can with the exception if there is a power loss in the process. I tried coping a hard drive that had a problem and the problem was copied to the new drive so I am not sure it can even correct a problem on the target drive if I understand you correctly.
1478874
Depends on how many other cards and drives are installed. Not enough info to answer the question. If you only have a single hard disk and no other expansion boards installed, it would probably be okay.
488345
This card will do a couple of functions that others will not. You must have the right drivers. I will not tell you in this review, contact me directly.