Saturday, December 24, 2011

SIIG SC-SAE512-S1 Review

SIIG SC-SAE512-S1 Product reviews





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Category: Personal Computers
Brand: SIIG
Model: SC-SAE512-S1
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SIIG SC-SAE512-S1 Product reviews


SIIG SC-SAE512-S1 Review by C. Williams "jack of many trades, master of none" (Wandering)

Just got this card and inserted it into my laptop (running Windows 7 beta) and it found and installed the card perfectly. Did the same under XP SP2. I am using it with a Thermaltake Esata external drive adapter. The cable supplied by Thermaltake has molded plastic ends that do not allow it to insert fully into the Express card ports enough to connect. I though maybe the card was DOA but after a quick Google search I saw a reference to other people having the same issue with different products. I quick trip to the grinder to slim down the plastic on the connector and it inserted that extra 1/8 inch and I was up and running.
You would think a standard would exist for ports and plugs so that other people don't think (and return) products they think are defective.
Great card though. quick and easy to install.


SIIG SC-SAE512-S1 Review by S. Foster

This card has worked well for me. Very fast with eSATA drives. I connect three external Western Digital 750 Gig hard drives to it (two at at time of course). The only other thing I would like is the ability to boot from the external SATA drives. This card does not support booting from the connected drives, or at least I have been unable to find a way; even after searching the web for a while.


SIIG SC-SAE512-S1 Review by David Heath (Snohomish, WA United States)

It seems to work, but I have not yet confirmed how fast it is. It seems to be very easy to have it accidentally pop out of my brand new, "HP Pavilion dv6t-2000 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC." It also seems to have "play" sideways and does not seem secure. This is my first ExpressCard 54 device, but I was told that the narrower ExpressCard 34 are much worse. This may not be SIIG or HP's fault at all, but just a stupid industry wide specification for ExpressCard.

Also the drive did not work AT ALL on Win7 Pro 64bit when I used the then recommended 1.0.14.1 driver. I called SIIG support and they eventually emailed me a link to use the 1.0.15.0 driver, but absolutely no "how to do install it" info. I have been computing for many years and tried several of the 'normal ways' before I got it to work. (Sorry, but that was 12 days ago and I don't recall how I finally did it. My mistake.)

Summary. It works, but not ready for Prime Time.

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Esata II Expresscard:: Technical Details


  • SATA Internal Channels - N/A
  • Weight - 0.80 lbs.
  • SATA Cable Included - No
  • Item Dimensions: 0 x 0 x 0 inches; 0 pounds
  • Brand: SIIG
  • Model: SC-SAE512-S1
  • Product Type: Personal Computers
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