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Highpoint 1740 SATA-II Controller - PCI isn't Dead yet
Author: Cameron Johnson SUMMARY: Today we take a look at the Highpoint 1740 controller which offers four SATA II 3Gb/s ports over the PCI bus.
Editor: Cameron Wilmot
Category: Storage
Published: 22nd October 2006
Manufacturer: HighPoint Technologies, Inc
Our Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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Introduction

PCI Express has come into our PC industry with huge promises and yes, it has delivered. A single PCI Express x1 lane can deliver double the bandwidth of the PCI bus and it’s point to point, no sharing like traditional PCI.

It begs the question - why haven’t we seen more PCI Express cards on the market? We simply can’t answer that, we can only surmise that PCI is cheaper to produce and more widely accepted. There are guaranteed PCI slots on any motherboard these days and even in older server systems which don’t get as upgraded as often as the desktop sector.

Highpoint has sent us their latest RAID controller card for the PCI bus that is guaranteed to work in any PC as long as it has a PCI slot and that is any motherboard from the Intel Pentium 2 era to now.

Introducing the Highpoint 1740 PCI SATA-II controller card, let’s see how it performs against PCI Express based controllers.

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