Syba SI-PEX40062 SATA III 4 Port PCI-e 2.0 x2 Card with Low Profile Bracket,Green

Ok, just so that everyone is clear, this card does NOT support RAID or HyperDuo!! What this card does, and does very well, is to add an additional four internal SATA ports to your system via the PCIe slot, which is perfect if you have an older motherboard, like mine, and need additional SATA ports, but don't have the money to buy a new board, or simply have no reason to change your existing motherboard. The card come supplied with two SATA cables, which by my guess are 45cm in length, the driver CD and a low profile backing plate.It turned out I didn't need the driver CD, because after inserting the card, connecting my drives and powering the system back up again, Windows installed the needed drivers perfectly and my attached drives appeared straight away. If you're after a quick and affordable solution to add additional SATA ports to your system, this is it. But once again, this card does NOT do RAID or HyperDuo...

I previously used a SiL card from Leaf.de (who I think are no longer in business), but killed it with a firmware upgrade.I needed to provide 8 eSata ports for my media server, to connect to 4-bay external enclosures (Startech and IcyBox, all from Amazon). One constraint is that the motherboard only has single lane PCIe slots, and I could not find any suitable cards with 4 eSata ports. However I had a 4-eSata to Sata backplate from the Leaf card, so by using that and a pair of these Syba cards I now have the 6 eSata ports I needed.Installation was straightforward, using the latest Marvell drivers. It took a couple of reboots before all drives were reliably recognised, but now everything runs completely stable. The drives power down and up with the system. I am using Windows 7 Pro x64, on an MSI E-350D motherboard.I haven't done any real performance testing, but reliably see 100MB/s transfers. With only single lane support I don't expect incredible performance with multiple concurrent drive access, but these cards more than meet the needs of my media server.I am also using, and can heartily recommend, StableBit Drivepool and Scanner. These cards properly pass the SMART data.If you need port-multiplier eSata, and only have single lane slots available, then these are the cards to go for. There is also a similar card with all 4 ports internal, and 2 lane versions of both.

Running Linux Mint 17, 16GB DDR2 Ram Core2 Quad. I Used this to replace a SATA 2 card which I had bought 3 years ago.I plugged it in, connected my drives, leaving the boot drive and BD Burner on the motherboard and switched on. It just worked. No messages, no installing drivers, no anything. Just the 4 x 3T drives sitting there ready to be accessed.I tried a copying 1TB data from one drive to another. A mixture of large >10GB files and small files 20KB-100MB. A total of 4000+ files. All went accros in 5 to 6 minutes as opposed to the 20+ minutes with the old card.Not the fastest of SATA 3 cards, but the speed/cost ratio means I give it 4 stars. But only because I've just been using it for 2 months and so have no idea about long term reliability.

Plugged into a free PCIe slot, started the computer, and Windows picked this up and installed it immediately. Shut down and attached a SSD drive, and this was immediately recognised and running at its full speed (although it is only an older 3G version: I am still awaiting delivery of my shiny new 6G drive).I suspect that those who have had trouble with this have installed the card and attached a drive together. My advice is to install and boot up with the card alone and let Windows find it, then shut down and attach the drive separately. My system is running windows 7 pro x64. I did not find any noticeable increase in boot times after installation.It was also a pleasant surprise to find that the box includes two bundled SATA cables. Looking back at the listing, these are show on some of the pictures, although are not highlighted in the text.

Using this with my HP Z800 to give my Samsung 850 EVO full speeds. This works really well and I recommend using default Windows drivers.Please note when installing..1, install the pcie sata card without any drives connected2, boot PC up so Windows installs the default drivers3, power off PC and connect your c drive hdd to the pcie card4, boot PC and enter bios and select your hdd from boot order listOn HP z800 you have to put the onboard sata ports in IDE mode save this in bios and reboot back into bios and the pcie sata drive connect should not show in boot order list. Select the drive and reboot again.And that's it's working.Works really well for cheap card and being 2x there no bandwidth limits for a single ssd.Use the default Windows drivers as this allows Windows to pass the trim commands to the ssds which keeps the ssd fresh and performing well.