Best ATA controller card, for a low budget?

acoysighintime · Post by **acoysighintime** » Wed May 21, 2003 2:29 pm

Right now I have too many IDE devices than ports on my motherboard. I somehow have to get my DVD-RW, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, 40gb 'Cuda, 80gb 'Cuda, and 6gb Medalist all running at once. I need a IDE controller.

Can anyone recommend a cheap one? Possibly one that will run CD-Rom's as well as HDD's?

Riffer · Post by **Riffer** » Wed May 21, 2003 2:37 pm

By a used Promise Ultra100 - ebay, or off the forums.

I just sold one for about $40 Canadian.

bigred · Post by **bigred** » Thu May 22, 2003 2:14 am

I agree. Promise is generally inexpensive by comparison to others and they work quite well. Just make sure your mobo doesn’t already have some kind of Promise controller onboard, because if it does you will not be able to use another promise card.

DanOnKeys · Post by **DanOnKeys** » Thu May 22, 2003 4:36 am

I got the same card. I'm not using it anymore (using onboard RAID -- then converting to SATA as $$ allows) -- but I was happy with it. Definitely better than a cheaper Silicon Image card I used before that.

pingu666 · Post by **pingu666** » Fri May 23, 2003 6:03 am

cards in the uk are expensive atm

use card for ya hds be better, prolly faster than what u got atm

edcrane · Post by **edcrane** » Fri May 23, 2003 5:26 pm

should be able to buy one on ebay for <$12.00. A while back I bought a controller from compusa (house brand). It didn't work with anything. Windows would constantly hang on boot up, every time I tried to access drives in 2k/xp I'd get the bsod. On the other hand, the SIIG ata-66, Promise 100, and Maxtor (promise) ATA-133 run fine on all my boxes. Go figure.