Pros & Cons
Cons
Controller randomly crashes if/when-ever large amounts of data are written to the array. Do not buy.
Highlights
Quality
Works like a charm and gives us peace of mind that beside regular backups the data is being protected with a redundant drive.
After 8 months and my nas is running smoothly 24/24 with no problem so far.
Forget mdadm and mb driver software raid junk.
Plugged it, plugged 4 new drives and booted.
Price
This startech one is expensive but it works great!
Ya you may have to pay a little more, but the it never fails.
Shipping
2 day delivery turned into almost 10 days!
Packaging/appearance
The box could have been sitting on a warehouse shelf for years.
Competitiveness
I already had a "rivo" adapter at half the price but this "startech" delivers 30% better throughput so it's worth the extra cost.
I moved controller to other pci-ex16 slot, and all problems went away (different interrupt).
I had a different, 6-port model for an older build that was some other, unknown brand that worked well but wanted to come back ... 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 362 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 24 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Had to many connections on the card and would not fit into my pcie slot
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Was not anything wrong with the card as far as i know but the motherboard i have is a newer msi so the card would not fit
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Changes in the slots that i was not aware of before ordering the card
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had a different 6port model for an older build that was some other unknown brand that worked well but wanted to come back to something with a little more recognition in terms brand
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Currently using in a trx40 server with 64core trx40 cpu seated on a as rock trx40 creator mobo
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A single ssd can do 552418 mbs readwrite
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Two ssds can do 1107836 mbs readwrite
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Three ssds can do 15371263 mbs readwrite