Recommend a PCI SATA Controller Card

[tnitsuj]

I want to add a 1 terabyte + SATA drive to my old IDE only Dell 8250. The system only has PCI slots. Can anyone recommend a good PCI SATA controller for this system. I will be running Windows XP and possibly Ubuntu Linux.

Additionally, will I see a significant performance increase going from my 7200 RPM ~200gig IDE drives to a 7200 RPM SATA drive on a controller card?

 

[0roo0roo]

how old is the 200gb. its all about density per platter for speed. so if its old..then yes, much faster. that much more data is read per rpm after all.

 

[tnitsuj]

I would say the hard drives are at least 2-3 years old in the current system.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Syba 4-port PCI SATA1 RAID/IDE card at NewEgg.
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