Is this a bootable raid card?
1000416
Yes, but only if your system is bootable from your motherboards PCI, within the BIOS settings. It all depends on your motherboard. Check with the motherboard manufacturer if you cannot find the correct BIOS setting.
1000417
You cannot boot your sustem from a hard drive connected to a raid card. yes that is a raid card. Your system boots from its main memory so the hard drive must be connected in its normal spot. Rodney G. April 27, 2014
391634
Yes, I'm using it for the same reason (add extra sata ports). You can disable the raid.
826775
You should have no issues running ESXi on this. You would have to by an actual dedicated RAID card though as the on board is a fake RAID and probably isn't supported by ESXi.
230094
The card itself has no RAID capabilities; the HDDs are reported to BIOS and OS as independent drives. That means you can only create software RAID arrays, via the OS.
1910188
Yes - this version of the 128GB CF 1050X UDMA7 is firmware bootable for ML. You can record on the card until it is full.
230093
Yes, I have two internal drives running off this card, paired in a RAID 1, set up through Win 7. If your motherboard and OS supports RAID, it's not a problem.
2250250
The one I bought has hardware raid. I have 4 * 1tb drives installed configured as RAID 5.
1318415
I have 2 of these in an Asus M5A99FX Pro motherboard, they work perfectly. This card does not need a driver, it is a standard SATA card(no raid). I'm running Windows Server 2012 on the machine. Hope this helps. BTW - I have 8 2tb disks connected.
1944264
Probably not. If you motherboard is equipped with SATA3, RAID0 on this card will not be any faster (probably slower) than onboard RAID0.
1533719
Yes, but why use this old card now for RAID? The SATA supports only 150 MB/s. Most new drives will be SATA III, 6Gb/s or up to 550 GB/s. Just my $0.02 worth.
1170960
In the past RAID has been a hardware supported function. I don't use this in a RAID setup as I only have two drives in it so far. You should view this as four separate USB to SATA bridges. Any RAID function you want to use will have to be 100% software implemented.
1266022
I'm not sure know the answer (or fully understand what you're trying to accomplish) but I can't see why not. If the controller card is recognized in the BIOS, and the drives attached to the controller are recognized by the controller, then using the controller BIOS you can configure the drive array (RAID, JBOD, etc) and then set the boot order. Of course, using a controller card you will need to hit F6 to install the controller card drivers in order to load windows onto it.
1944265
With a raid card you wont have to rely on getting the same motherboard chipset that the raid was created on which can be difficult a few years after purchase. You can just pop this in a new motherboard and it would just work without worries of having to reconfigure onboard raid and risk corrupting or overwriting the data already on the drives, which is way to easy to do.
923996
No. This card has no RAID functionality. You need to find a card that offers RAID 1, which is drive mirroring, to do what you're looking to do.
504792
Yes, the drive is compatible and would probably boost your performance if employed as a boot drive.
735280
Onboard RAID (0, 1, 1+0) is a software supported RAID. If you want performance RAID I'd recommend a dedicated RAID card. Also ESXI does not support onboard software RAID.
1541879
It depends how you want to use it. In Raid 0 it will work, but in Raid 1 it will not work.