IO Crest SI-PEX40064 4 Port SATA III PCIe Controller Card (Green)

SHORTAGE OF SATA III ON MOTHERBOARD RESOLVED IN ONE STEP. SATA III PORTS ON THE CARD AS FAST AS THE ONES ON THE MOTHERBOARD. WILL RECOMMEND TO EVERYONE LOOKING FOR UPGRADING.

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Hi this is ramesh Iam using this card. This is very good card. Iam using this card in windows 8.1

Outstanding product though chipset is old and windows 10 used standard storage controller

Very usefull 100% worth for money

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Using it as SATA III ports which were not working Using it as SATA III ports which were not working on workstation (HP Z400) Suddenly one day got blue screen and workstation was restarted with no HDD message. After thorough investigation found problem with SATA port on motherboard. Asked vendor to repair motherboard, but he wasn't able to resolve it. Vendor was suggesting to replace motherboard. (It wasn't available) Then ordered this Si-PEX40057 (4 SATA Ports) and this card saved my life :) Now it's almost 3month I am using this PCI card and it's working flawlessly. (24*7). Now I am able to use @ 6Gbps 2TB Seagate 1TB WD 240 GB SSD Personally I suggest you to go through it.

Just For HDD Not For SSD. It Will Definitely Bottleneck Your SSD's Performance.

Si vous voulez du RAID performant, il vous faut une carte contrôleur RAID orientée performance, qu'on reconnaît à son prix et à sa ventilation notamment. Y'en a sur Amazon (LSI, Adaptec), comptez 200 euros. Si, comme moi, vous voulez juste connecter des disques supplémentaires en usages NAS ou standard, cette carte est PARFAITE. Un chip Marvell à la barre, comme sur les cartes-mère haut de gamme, et avec une ventilation passive prévue au cas où il serait bien sollicité. Une reconnaissance parfaite de la carte sans avoir rien à faire. 4 ports, pour voir venir. Idéal pour compenser un achat hâtif d'une petite carte-mère peu chère et avare en ports. Un prix très raisonnable pour une 4 ports. Vous pouvez également brancher des SSD dessus si vous en avez, mais je recommande d'utiliser plutôt les ports présents sur votre CM. La bande passante totale disponible sur la carte est de 500 Mo/s: c'est largement suffisant pour 4 disques mécaniques, qui auront du mal à dépasser les 100-120 mo/s individuellement, et tournent plus usuellement dans les 50-60. Ca ne suffira sans doute pas pour 4 SSD, mais perso je ne les ai pas :P Voilà, donc foncez Je trouve cette carte super dans son rôle, à savoir une connexion ultra-stable de disques supplémentaires et sans contrainte de goulet d'étranglement pour ce pour quoi elle est prévue (4 disques mécaniques qui consomment ensemble 100 mo/s, c'est pas commun). Chip Marvel qui va bien, aucune fausse note, prix raisonnable: bref, le meilleur du made in china.

Il controller funziona perfettamente e ha fatto si che il disco ssd sata venga riconosciuto come ahci anche se la mia vecchia scheda madre non supportava quella modalità. In sostanza il controller fa si che la scheda madre, pur contrassegnadolo come ide, si interfacci con l'ssd sata con modalità ahci e velocità di trasferimento nominale sata 3. È aumentata la velocità di lettura scrittura su ssd (che è passata da 1.500, quando il disco era attaccato direttamente alla porta sata della scheda madre, a 2.000) ma soprattuto sono stato attivati la modalità ahci e trim, vantaggiosi per l'ssd anche per evitarne il deterioramento. Windows 10 riconosce automaticamente il controller e installa il driver storahci che gestisce il disco meglio del driver marvell (che si trova nel cd all'interno della scatola). Per far si che la scheda madre faccia il boot bisogna ricordarsi di indicare l'ssd come primo dei dischi collegati. La cosa non è automatica perché la scheda madre vorrebbe mettere per primi gli altri dischi (sata meccanici). Invece bisogna specificare che si vuole fare il boot dal disco ide. Il controller, nell'interfacciarsi con la vecchia scheda madre, indica il disco come ide, ma in realtà, dopo il boot, il disco viene riconosciuto correttamente come sata 3, con il driver storahci e la fubzione trim attivati. Chiaramente la scheda pcie x1 a cui è collegato il controller, ha i suoi limiti, quindi il disco ssd non viaggierà comunque al massimo delle sue possibilità. Però, come ho già detto, i protocolli di gestione adesso sono quelli ahci (che prima di fare il collegamento che ho descritto non potevo attivare perché non previsti dalla motherboard). Consiglio di collegare altri dischi(meccanici) alle porte sata della scheda madre e non al controller, in modo che tutta la banda della scheda pcie x1 resti dedicata al controller e al disco ssd di boot (su cui ho installato tutti i programmi e il sistema operativo). Ho finito con le espansioni possibili, non mi resta in futuro che cambiare scheda madre (e quindi ram e processore). Però il mio vecchio pc (con 8 giga di ram ddr2 e processore phenom) , truccato com'è regge ancora botta e windows 10 si avvia in modo istantaneo

For my intended purpose this is ridiculous. So cheap for exactly what I was looking for. I have several hard drives and disk drives and ran out of SATA ports to use on my mother board (only has 6). Was looking for a adapter that would make use of my unused pci-e 2.0x1 slots on my board (or even the pci-e 2.0 x8 and x4 slot since I only run 1 video card these other ports just collect dust) but give me more SATA ports. This fit the bill perfectly and for much less than several other brands adapters on the market. Not only do you gain 4 SATA III(6gb/s) rather than most other adapters only give you 2 SATA ports and are not always SATA III. I followed instructions but if you are even slightly schooled on computers and computer parts you could just guess what to do fairly easily. Unhook everything, power cord disconnect and install the card in the pci-e 2.0x1 (or x4 x8 x16) or pci-e 1.0x1 (or x4 x8 x16). With the pci-e 1.0 it will just run at half the speed if you have an ancient board but is still compatible. Also I didn't seem to find anywhere in the description about the SATA cables so I ordered some.... It comes with 2 and they are both SATA III capable. I had no issue with the drivers, didn't even need the disc. windows 7 x64 recognized the device and downloaded them. FOR PEEPS WITH WORRIES ABOUT POSSIBLE COMPATIBILITY PROBLEMS- This is my system setup and install and use went without any issues. (I doubt there should be any unless the pci-e slot you are trying to use is malfunctioning on the Mobo....) --Intel I5-2500K (Sandy) Processor --EVGA Z68 ATX DDR3 2133 Intel - LGA 1155 Motherboards 130-SB-E685-KR --EVGA GeForce GTX760 FTW with ACX Cooler 4GB GDDR5 256Bit Dual-Link DVI-I DVI-D HDMI DP SLI Ready 04G-P4-3768-KR --2x--Kingston Technology HyperX 8 GB (2x4 GB Modules) 1600 MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Kit (PC3 12800) 240-Pin SDRAM KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX --Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit (Full) --Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW --Western Digital 500GB and 1TB Blue HDD (7200rpm) SATA III ---Pioneer Electronics USA 15x SATA Internal BD/DVD/CD Burner with 4 MB Buffer BDR-208DBK --Sony AD-7280S-0B 24x SATA Internal DVD+/-RW Drive (Black) I have swapped all my HDD's, SSD, and Optical drives to this adapter and ALL OF THEM WORK on ALL SATA PORTS. SO to sum up..... This thing is an absolute STEAL if you are trying to make use of some pci-e 2.0 or 1.0x1 slots and would like some more SATA ports :) I actually may buy another one of these in case my motherboard SATAs decide to fry and then I won't have to get a new motherboard. I hope this helps you in your decision, if you have any questions or comments please ask!

Tras muchos cálculos y dudas iniciales, ya he llegado a una conclusión... Un crucial mx100 que no pasaba de 85 Mb/s reales en lectura/escritura simultanea (lo que viene siendo copiar y pegar un archivo en el mismo HD) conectado por sata 2, ha pasado a 120Mb/s con esta tarjetita pci, con picos de hasta 150Mb/s; lo cual, por ese dinero, me parece un puntazo... Suscribo lo que dicen muchos, que SÍ vale la pena conectar por PCI un sata 3 y que si bien es cierto que no llega a un rendimiento de sata 3 nativo de la placa, alcanzas un "sata 2,5" muy aceptable. Los que dicen que no vale la pena pasar de sata 2 a 3 por el cuello de botella del pci x1 no saben lo que dicen. Yo lo uso solo para el SSD de sistema y va como un tirazo... Mi placa antigua ASUS extreme rampage 2 renace de sus cenizas gracias a un ssd con "sata casi3" para dar guerra unos cuantos años más. Por cierto, la tarjeta no me la ha reconocido directamente la placa, hay que instalar la aplicación marvel 91xx driver que viene en el CD, y luego, una vez que te la reconoce, actualizar los drivers como viene en las instrucciones del paquete. Bien por amazon, bien por Syba

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...