2-Port SATA/eSATA PCMCIA/Cardbus Expansion Card for Laptops

Pros: - Does what it's supposed to - Very cheap - Nice to have the flexibility of a SATA port and and eSATA

Cons: - Can be tricky to find the right drivers (try VIA Arena) - Card has out of spec thickness, making it a tight fit

Other: If you need to flash 360 DVD drives and you don't have a desktop machine, this will get the job done on your laptop.

Pros: It works good. I needed to change the original IDE internal hdd to sata on my laptop Fujitsu Siemens S7010. With this PCMCIA card I made it. It's booting and doing everything what IDE drive did.

Cons: It is not SATA2 device. The chip VIA VT6421A supports SATA2, but it runs at SATA1 speed (up to 150Mb/s)

Other: I did this experiment to increase hdd speed. I thought this card runs up to 300Mb/s. Now my laptop is notionally faster, but practically I don't see any difference.

Pros: This card "just worked" with Win 7 pro 64 bit. The card was recognised & installed as a VIA RAID Controller, a really rough quick test gave a transfer speed around 80 megabytes a second. It seems a little fat, as others have commented.

Cons: Nothing really major that I can think of, usual terrible packaging & pointless cdrom.. I still don't know if you can use both ports, or indeed whether the esata port works at all.

Other: good buy, I may get another