Adaptec ACK 68I5-LVD-CBL-KT

Advantages: Good points. Obscenely easy way to rebuild a corrupted server.
Disadvantages: Bad points. Limited hardware and software support. Make sure your operating system can read all partitions.

...to do this, as can big transaction processing systems. Until now, however, it has been almost impossible for a standard PC to do so. There has never been BIOS support for sequential devices such as tape drives, and they can only function once drivers have been loaded later in the boot process. Consequently, the necessary, minimal disaster recovery operating system cannot be loaded and the restoration process cannot start. Installation of the tape drive and software is as easy as anything on NT can get. Yosemite TapeWare is provided in the box and proved to be a usable piece of back up software. The tape drive is a SCSI device we connected to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card; it is also provided with a Multi-mode SCSI terminator block as well. This terminator detects whether the host bus adapter is SE or LVD and automatically provides... Read review

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Advantages: Works well out of box; captures video as MPEG-2 flawlessly
Disadvantages: Stopped working after a Microsoft update - Adaptec will not offer free fix.

...Product served me well for transferring several piles of VHS tapes to my Media Center 2005 machine. Then - Microsoft came out with some software update and product only works for a limited time. Pause it while recording and the PC freezes. restart the PC and it no longer detects the device. Remove device - uninstall drivers and uninstalling WinDVR 3 all temporary fixes - problem reoccurs. Doing the C++ registry hack worked very limited, now does not. Adaptec - with this known problem - can not even be contacted outside of their "pay" support. Adaptec has not updated their searchable database with the "fix" - they apparently demand their customers to pay them before they assist. A sad state of affairs within a once-great company. Shame on you, Adaptec!... Read review

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Advantages: Tweakability, stability, relyability
Disadvantages: price

...Some things are meant to go together. Horse & Carriage. Fish and Chips. Bread and Butter. Well, here's another on for the list - Abit's KT7-A Motherboard and AMD's socket A processor's. AMD's Socket A chips come in two varaieties - the Duron, and it's big brother, the Thunderbird. Abit's KT7-A motherboard has two options, the KT7-A, or the KT7-A RAID. Confused? Don't be! they'll all work with each other, so no problems there. The KT7-A is Abit's latest board using Via Technologies KT133A chipset. This chipset, and the boards using it, support the latest bells and whistles - 4xAGP, asyncronous memory timings, UDMA100, PC133 spec memory, etc. But the big difference between the A variants and the previous types is the A variants are ready for AMD's next generation of high speed chips. These chips will use a 133Mhz bus speed... Read review

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