Will this card work under Windows 8 32bit? I have an older Dell e520 that I turned into a HTPC and I need a PCI (not express) controller card to get my sata3 2tb drive to be recognized. (Seagate drive - no jumpers to force sata1 operation) Will this card work under Windows 8 32bit? I have an older Dell e520 that I turned into a HTPC and I need a PCI (not express) controller card to get my sata3 2tb drive to be recognized. (Seagate... » Read More Will this card work under Windows 8 32bit? I have an older Dell e520 that I turned into a HTPC and I need a PCI (not express) controller card to get my sata3 2tb drive to be recognized. (Seagate drive - no jumpers to force sata1 operation) « Show Less
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This card has been working well with my system running 32-bit XP Pro. However, I experience VERY low RAID-5 data transfer rate, about only 40 MBytes/s on read and 10 MBytes/s on write. It should say SATA I (not II).
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My Vantec card works well with Windows 8 64 bit systems, I've never tried it on a 32 bit system, though.
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I am probably the wrong person to ask since I deal with 64-bit Linux programs rather than Windows; however, as a 32-bit card, Windows should provide internal drivers to support SATA I, II, and III drives from the standard PCI buss, regardless of the specific manufacturer of the controller card. Hopes this sheds some light on the situation.
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Have not tried it under the Windows NT 6.x kernel (Vista, 7, 8, 2008, 2008R2, 2012). I originally got it for a HP Compaq 7800 running Windows Home Server Version 1 (A 32 bit modified version of Windows Server 2003 SP2) and worked great for me. However seeing it does work on Windows 7 32 bit drivers I believe the card would work under Windows 8 (Despite the big facelift in Windows 8 it is basically Windows 7 under the hood).
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it won't work. you need connect PCIE slot to Video card, 1x adapter to motherboard 1x,4x,8x or 16x PCIE slots (the 1x adapter fits all PCIE slots), then use USB cable to connect PCIE slot and 1x adapter. In the end, connect SATA power. Hope helpful
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From the quick search of your motherboard: Your board supports PCI-e The card is PCI-e 3.0 Generally devices are backwards comparable but you will experience slower bus speeds. I am not sure if you have 3.0 or not, but the card should work regardless. The only downfall I dislike about this specific card is it says it supports SLI, but does NOT actually have the ports. So it supports it, just cant use it? Thats silly to me.
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I connected the drive on my 7-year-old DELL laptop (with USB 2.0) and initially it didn't work, but I assumed it was because of the OS, Windows Vista: apparently the manufacturer doesn't warn you that it only works with Windows XP, 7 and 8 (as stated on the box). I tried everything, and nothing worked; finally, just casually after giving up, I tried connecting the drive with the cable of my previous one, a 2-year-old 1 TB Western Digital, and it worked, and it is still doing fine. So I would say yes, it's compatible with USB 2.0, but I'm not sure what really happened here.
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Server 2012 /2012R@ drivers are listed at http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr600-download.htm I believe I used this on a Server 2012 Storage Server build with no issues. It does NOT work well with some UEFI BIOSes, so that may be an issue for you. The first board I used was a UEFI and I could not select this card as a boot device. Hope this helps, and good luck.
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I have one and it worked fine on my old XP machine, but my new Dell has Vista and so far I can't get it to work, even afer downloading the drivers that sandisk said would fix the problem. Vista keeps seeing it as a 14 in 1 drive and refuses to except any input from it. I just gave it to a friend who's still running (and I wish I was) XP and replaced it with one by Belkin.
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It worked for me on Windows 8. I upgraded the motherboard before going to Windows 8.1, and no longer need the riser card, so I can't definitively answer with respect to 8.1, but ... I really can't imagine a card working under Windows 8 that would not work under 8.1.
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The PCI to USB 3.0 cards will only work if yourcomputer has a PCI-e slot. The regular PCI slots are different from the PCI-e slots in every way from the size, power that is transmitted through them and the processing speed. Out of curosity I just looked at the specs for the Dell XPS 8100, and you absolutely have a PCI-e slot. It's slot # 27. And slot #23 is a regular PCI slot, So yes it will work in your computer as long as that PCI-e slot is available. So read your computer manual and make sure there is nothing else preventing you from using it for a USB 3.0 card. Make sure there is no graphic card in there. Good luck. The PCI to USB 3.0 cards will only work if yourcomputer has a PCI-e slot. The regular PCI slots are different from the PCI-e slots in every way from the size, power that is transmitted through them and the processing speed. Out of curosity I just looked at the specs for the Dell XPS 8100, and you absolutely have a PCI-e slot. It's slot # 27. And slot #23 is a regular PCI slot, So yes it will work in your computer as long as that PCI-e slot is available. So read your computer manual and make sure there is nothing else preventing you from using it for a USB 3.0 card. Make sure there is no... » Read More The PCI to USB 3.0 cards will only work if yourcomputer has a PCI-e slot. The regular PCI slots are different from the PCI-e slots in every way from the size, power that is transmitted through them and the processing speed. Out of curosity I just looked at the specs for the Dell XPS 8100, and you absolutely have a PCI-e slot. It's slot # 27. And slot #23 is a regular PCI slot, So yes it will work in your computer as long as that PCI-e slot is available. So read your computer manual and make sure there is nothing else preventing you from using it for a USB 3.0 card. Make sure there is no graphic card in there. Good luck. « Show Less
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It automatically loads it's drivers and is usable on both my Dell and HP laptops. There are USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 version ports. I've had other USB sticks that will work in one version of the port and not another. Look into that being the problem.
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I do not have a Dell pc, so I do not know what slots may be installed, and the card I have is installed, in service, and not available to me at the moment. The card has, to the best of my memory, a standard pci interface, not one of the newer pci-express interfaces. Hope this helps.
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This is a PCI-E card. According the the specs for this computer on the Amazon site, this PC has 1 available PCI-E slot. The card should work, but I recommend you verify on the Radeon website that is compatible with Windows 8.
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It has been some time since I used this card. My recollection is that it is only PCI (not express format). It was purchased for the IDE and eSata functionality, although I believe it has at least 1 internal Sata connector.
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It depends on the type of slots in your system and what OS you're running. I have a SFF Dell 740 and needed the shorter card (height and length) for the slot size. I'm also running Windows 8.1. It's working fine for me out of the box, plug and play. That is, I installed the card, powered my system back on and Windows located the appropriate driver for it and installed it. I also downloaded the latest release of the ATI Catalyst control center software.
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I use Win 7x64 & purchased this card to salvage an IDE old DVD drive. It works, but you cannot boot from CD with it. There were other issues occasionally. I ended up dumping the card and purchasing a SATA to IDE adapter for the DVD drive. I also purchased "IO Crest SATA III 4 Port PCI-e 2.0 x1 Card with Low Profile Bracket (SI-PEX40064)" and have had no problems.
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I installed this drive in an Dell Optiplex 740 MT which can handle sata II or sata III hard drives. You need to check the specifications of your motherboards controller and find out if it can handle that type of drive. My processor is an Athlon X2 64.
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1) I've never seen anything like that -- and I check regularly for USB 3 cards (and also SATA III cards). 2) It is EXTREMELY unlikely ANYONE puts out a card that will do RAID with ESATA (as opposed to internal SATA). RAID is set up under the assumption that all the disks will be treated as a single unit. I don't know of anyone who would be using EXTERNAL drives for RAID. 3) Keep in mind that this is PCIe x ONE, not 4 or 8 or 16. That means it has limited bandwidth. You MIGHT be able to find a PCIe-x1 card that can handle 2-disk MIRRORED RAID (I think that's RAID 10), but with more disks (i.e., striping as opposed to mirroring), an x1 card probably couldn't handle the throughput of modern drives. You could still read and write to the drives, but there would be no speed advantage to using multi-disk striped RAID.
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I have all available Windows and Dell updates on my Dell Inspiron Windows 8 machine, and it does not work consistently. Most of the time it hangs when you try to access a disk. Couldn't write to discs using ImgBurn. I flashed my Bios once to the same version I had, and it worked until I rebooted. After flashing the Bios again, it didn't work. Works perfectly on my Windows 7 machine. The package says the unit is only compatible with XP and Windows 7.