This is amazing. Performs really well. BIOS recognized immediately. I would recommend. Read more

Let's talk about what kind of results you can get from this device. The good news is it occupies, in general, a PCI-E x4 lane option. This is far better than cards that are PCI-E x1 trying to do SATA, as they are choked by bandwidth. However, the one issue I ran into, tested by creation of a ZFS pool and then drive by drive is one that is to be expected. Populate the first four SATA, and you can get generalized SATA speed you'd expect. Populate all six, and the last two are "choked" and perform at a much lower rate, about 3/4 of the first four. This is not a monumental issue for those just wanting to add space on a NAS where basically your speed will be enough to saturate a 2.5Gb controller, definitely a 1Gb controller. If you are connecting to your NAS by 10Gb, you may not get to full throughput (use a L2ARC on an NVME to help) In general, though, this is a very useful lway to turn some boards into a true NAS type solution. I had extreme doubts about this product, but was glad to be proven wrong. Read more

I have 2 gripes with the card: (1) the orientation of the jumpers isn't really made clear. I wanted both ports to be eSATA, as I have two enclosures. The key is to look at both images: the one that identifies the jumpers and the one that shows the eSATA setup (with the jumpers placed horizontally when looking at the standard position (with the external ports on your right). (2nd gripe) I put a couple of drives in an enclosure and booted into Win10. It only saw one of them, and after looking at the reviews/questions I saw a number of complaints about only seeing one drive. This, too, seems to be the manufacturer's fault. I started looking at other cards, and ended up on the StarTech home page. I searched for eSATA and found two cards they offered. I went to the download page for one of them and saw a Windows driver, downloaded and ran as administrator, rebooted and was able to work with both drives. Both companies are using the same chip, but only StarTech offers the download. I hope this helps. Read more

Does exactly what it says - completely plug-n-play providing multiple additional sata3 ports. I've seen some with metal reinforced housing, making it not flex as much when sata cables are inserted. Certainly not a necessary feature - I had no issues. Read more

Mon ordinateur a très bien détecté la carte. Celle-ci a très bien vu l'ensemble de mes disques durs qui sont installés dans ma ProBox. Aucun problème jusqu'à présent. Mon ordinateur tourne Linux Debian 12. Read more

My Sil3132 PCIe x1 cards aren't recognized by my new Z790 MoBo no matter what I do in the BIOS. I tried a NewerTechnology card with 4 eSATA ports and a Marvell 9235 chip and it worked, but had an annoying BIOS setup screen that I couldn't bypass. This card is exactly what I needed. I have a 10-bay hot-swap eSATA enclosure with ten 16 TB drives. I set both ports on the card with the jumpers to run the external ports. Both ports multiply and I get fantastic speeds with no issues performing multiple copies simultaneously through either ports or from one to the other. The trick with newer UEFI motherboards is to set the mode from UEFI to CSM and then the boot type to UEFI with Legacy. These settings might be slightly different based on manufacturer and BIOS revision. So you'll have to play around to get it right. But my board flashes the ASMedia BIOS screen and shows the detected drives in a couple of seconds then moves on to boot up. I disabled all LEGACY boot devices so Windows doesn't scan these drives to find a suitable boot device. This is exactly what I wanted... a 10 drive port multiplier through eSATA that works on UEFI motherboards in Windows 11. Read more