Why throw away your old PC just because you need a new drive and cannot find a good PATA IDE drive for it? Add four independent SATA-I ports to your PCI equipped computer and enjoy the benefits of the optional software RAID configuration for added speed and/or data security with this adapter card from Monoprice! With SATA being the standard for the past few years, it is getting harder and harder to find a good PATA IDE drive for older computers. However, as long as you have an open PCI slot, you can add this adapter card, which gives you four SATA-I 1.5 Gbps ports, so you can use the newer drives. The card comes with an optional RAID utility, which lets you configure a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 0 1 setup on two or more of the SATA ports. You can have one RAID 0 or 1 setup and two independent SATA drives, two RAID 0 or 1 sets, or a single RAID 0 1 set. The card uses the SIL3114 chipset and will work in a 32-bit 66 MHz PCI bus. It includes drivers for Windows 98SE / ME / NT4 / XP / Server2003 / Vista / Server2008 / 7 both 32 and 64-bit where applicable and for various versions of RedHat, Fedora, and SuSE Linux systems. Features PCI Specification Revision 2.3 compliant Serial ATA Specification Revision 1.0 compliant Compliant with programming interface for Bus Master IDE Controller, Rev 1.0 4x Internal SATA-I ports Silicon Image SIL 3114 host controller chip Compliant with Serial ATA SATA 1.0 specification Supports 66Mhz PCI with 32-bit data Supports programmable and EEPROM, FLASH EPROM loadable PCI class mode Supports ATAPI devices CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, etc Integrated SATA Transport, Link Logic PHY layers 48-Bit sector addressing Virtual DMA Supports 4 Independent SATA-I channels 1.5Gbps Supports software RAID 0 striped , RAID 1 mirror , and RAID 0 1 Supports co-existing RAID set and Non-RAID HDDs Allows HDDs with different sizes to be configured in a RAID set Includes both Non-RAID and RAID drivers and utilities for various versions of Windows and Linux see specifications for complete list Package Contents 1x SIL3114 PCI 4-channel SATA controller card 1x SATA cable 1x Software driver Utility disc 1x User's manual Non-RAID Drivers for Windows 98 Windows 98SE Windows ME Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Server 2003 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Server 2008 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit RAID Drivers for Windows 98SE Windows ME Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Server 2003 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Server 2008 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit Fedora Linux Core 2, Kernel revision 2.6.5-1.358 32-bit and 64-bit Fedora Linux Core 3, Kernel revision 2.6.9-1.667 32-bit and 64-bit Fedora Linux Core 4, Kernel revision 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 32-bit and 64-bit RedHat Linux 7.3/8.0/9.0 64-bit RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 32-bit and 64-bit RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, Kernel revision 2.6.9-5 32-bit and 64-bit RedHat Enterprise L...