Re: Recommended pci-e 1x SATA cards.

[Brad Campbell <lists2009@fnarfbargle.com>]

On 16/04/11 13:15, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:31:08 -0500
> Stan Hoeppner<stan@hardwarefreak.com>  wrote:


>> Again, you're taking isolated incidents and assuming they are the norm,
>> when they most certainly are not.
>
> "Significant percentage of 3132 cards" is enough to me. Where I'd define
> "significant" even as 0.01% of cards. But actually it is likely to be more
> widespread than that, given this exact problem was already reported by 3
> people on 3 continents with 2 different OSes and 4 controller boards,
> including a brand-name one. If this is not a wide sampling, I don't know what
> is...
>

That it happens at all is enough for me to stay _well_ clear of them.

I can't recommend anybody go within a mile of a product that works well 
for 99.999% of people, when if you happen to be the 0.001% sample you 
don't know you are until the device has silently eaten all your data.

When there are alternatives available that have 0 reports of silently 
eating data, why would you even chance it?