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Pros

The pexsat34rh is a 6gbps raid controller card with hyperduo ssd tiering. It works with any size drive per sata spec (this question is perennial) using a port multiplier means upstream link capacity is shared with all downstream drives. Includes sff-8...  Read More

They need to rewrite the on-line manual for better ease of use. But, the instructions are not lengthy. Only flaw is no raid 5. It was recognized immediately without any additional work.



Cons

This product is not compatible with newer intel motherboards with 10th gen processors. This card has a marvell 88se9230 chipset which does not have a complete ahci (advance host controller interface) commandset implementation. The only way to use this...  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


Worth the price since it was hassle free.


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!

Packaging/appearance


This card took me less than 20 minutes from opening the package to being ready to copy media onto my new volume.


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.


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


Also, the bios hdd for the startech card comes up as unit 0, and if you have a boot ssd drive plugged into the mb it makes wind...  Read More

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  • This product had a total of 343 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 6 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its very good for being a decent product


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I am not using the raid features of this card and use the linux software raid instead


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Didnt try the onboard raid controller and didnt run any performance tests so i cant testify about these


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I would have preferred to be able to create a single raid5 array instead of two raid1 arrays but havent found a product that will do this and meet price and chassis space constraints etc


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    First let me say that ive always had good luck with startec products and the one time i didnt they were very helpful and quickly replaced what turned out to be a defective item


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    My motherboard will only recognize drives up to 2tb so ive always been limited in the amount of storage i could install


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Note this raid card does not support 4k sector drives


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Make sure you pair proper drives to it

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