SATA card

[RangerJoe]

I am going to buy two 36gb raptors in the near future, and I need to get a SATA card for my 120gb drive (going to be storage)

What cards do people have experience with? and a two channel card would be plenty, because i will not be having more than 1 at least anytime soon, maybe later on, ill buy another 120gb, and raid the two of them, but thats not that important.

mainly, i will need something to run my 120gb SATA drive off of.

[viking84]

I was wondering the same thing...started comparing out cards such as this:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=16-102-014&catalog=11&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=0

and this:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=16-102-029&catalog=11&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=0&section=3

but would much rather (for affordability's sake) get this one:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=15-104-219&depa=0&section=3

what is the difference between them? I'm the same as RangerJoe in that 2 channel would be plenty for me. I plan on hooking a 36 gig raptor to an a7n8x v 1.04 but would much rather spend 25 bucks than almost 50 bucks to do it...almost better off buying a new mobo for the price....thoughts anyone?