StarTech.com 8 Port SATA PCIe Card - PCI Express 6Gbps SATA Expansion Adapter Card with 4 Host Controllers - SATA PCIe Controller Card - PCI-e x4 Gen 2 to SATA III - SATA HDD/SSD (8P6G-PCIE-SATA-CARD)

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Pros

Ports run at drive speed as expected, no glitches. While i'm not getting full generation 3 speeds with this adapter, they're considerably faster and there's an unexpected bonus.

Includes sff-8087 mini-sas to sata data cables. Supports any size drive per sata spec (this question is perennial) using a port multiplier means upstream link capacity is shared with all downstream drives. I use this card in a 2tb raid 1 (mirror) arra... Read More

This card is a solid performer, especially running a raid 10 array. Windows sees the raid array as a single drive and it works fine. No fuss linux raid. Only flaw is no raid 5.

Server is a hp z220 cmt. Supports smart. Used it for a small site running citrix xenserver 6. Using ubuntu 22.

Cons

This card has a marvell 88se9230 chipset which does not have a complete ahci (advance host controller interface) commandset implementation. If you install more than one drive, the other drives drop to half speed. This product is not compatible with ne... Read More

Severely disappointing, usually startech products just work great. But in real world use, it seems to fall flat. Support is nonexistent.

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Quality

Board works great and has significantly improved the disk performance of an older pc being used as a nas.

Works like a charm and gives us peace of mind that beside regular backups the data is being protected with a redundant drive.

Ports stack close enough that if you use locking sata cables, they will not fully lock and can come loose.

Two of the eight sata ports on my motherboard failed, and i have seven sata drives (including the optical drive).

Price

I would suggest you buy this card if it costs under $70 like i did it retails on startech's website for around $90watch the fol... Read More

This startech one is expensive but it works great!

Shipping

) should be shipping these on current firmware.

Packaging/appearance

Popped it in, connected 2 seagate barracuda 1tb model # st 1000dm003 drives, created raid 1 setup, and installed os.

Competitiveness

I had tried another controller but found that it wasn't compatible with the built in controller.

Just like with the startech 3-bay enclosure, this card costs more than some similar cards out, but my experience with startech ... Read More

Got this to replace some other brand of pci-to-sata port card.

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This product had a total of 383 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 21 2024.