Newegg has the new APRICORN VEL-SOLO-X2 Solo x2 Extreme Performance SSD Upgrade Kit for Desktop PCs and MacPro for $100 - $10 off with coupon code APRICXXX5 [Exp 11/17] - $20 rebate [Exp 1/31/13] = $70 with free shipping. Lets you add a solid state drive to a PCIe 2.0 slot and supports SATA III speeds up to 550MBs. Check out the press release.
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This seems to be a bit pricey. You could just buy a PCI-E OCZ Revo drive. It comes with the ssd built in, and isn't limited to the SATA III speed like this is. It would be roughly double the speed as this one even with a really good SSD drive.
What an overpriced useless device this is.
Its just a generic controller. And you slap a drive onto it. And you have to provide it a SATA power connection.
The Revo and the other PCIe Cards are the same deal but feed power off the bus.
W e b s t e r 's Dictionary describes " refurbished " as JUNK purchased then returned to seller to be resold to another SUCKER, only with LESS WARRANTY then originally offered.
Thanks for that gthgr8t. Probably more relevant to post this with a deal that is refurbished as this is new.
Revo are known junk. This is geared towards machines without SATA III drive controllers.
..And I have no exp with this.
If your machine does not have a sata 3 controller then it isn't fast enough to benefit from adding one.
^ Not sure that I agree with that but this product is just odd when you could get a 2 or 4 port SATA III card and have it be more versatile, and likely to support RAID too.
Then again #6 has a point, that for the cost of the card THEN an SSD, maybe it's time to replace the motherboard instead of pouring a couple hundred $$$ into an aged system. $70 extra cost over the long run but then again your annual PC budget may exceed $70 so you could still break even if this delays buying a new system or complete upgrade components.
Another agreement with the groupthink, too much money for a single SATA port in an ugly dress. I put a way over-performant Samsung SSD in a cruddy HP toaster by using self-adhesive velcro to stick the drive to an odd end of the case.
I believe that most older computers with lesser SATA specs won't benefit a whole lot by trying to shove in a SATA 3 adapter. The CPU plus some OS inefficiencies aren't entirely ready for all that an SSD can give. The boost of having zero fragmentation/disk scrubbing penalty is what matters much more than GB/s.