 Most people buying a RAID controller expect higher ... Strengths: It's the cheapest card out there.
Weaknesses: Nothing but problems.
Summary: Most people buying a RAID controller expect higher reliability of their systems. This controller adds only trouble. If an average hard drive fails once in 2-3 years, with this card HD failures happen on a monthly basis. RAID 0 is practically unusable, because it scrambles data so often, that I wasn't even able to use RAID0 disc for caches - the data came out corrupted and applications crashed. RAID1 is your best shot. The only problem is that the card very often scrambles data during shutdown, so the next time you boot, the controller would suggest a lengthy (an hour or more, depending on the disk) copying process. Sometimes as a result of that failure, both RAID1 drives become quite corrupted, so much so that reinstallation of the operating system is inevitable. Good thing about RAID1 is that when it fails you usually can find your data on at least one of the drives. RAID0/1 has problems of both modes and I wouldn't recommend it at all. In my 4 HD RAID01 configuration it once corrupted 3 out of 4 drives, so the data couldn't be restored. The end result: 2 fatal system crashes (one with lost of data) in a year. Usually you get better results without any RAID controller at all.
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