Vantec 4 Channel, 2 mSATA, 2 SATA 6Gb/s PCIe RAID Card with HyperDuo UGT-MST644R

Unless this product is misleading, I was only looking for PCIe bandwidth and thought this product offered x4 Pcie 2 support. There are no connections. It would be a performance of around 550M/s * 4, which would be in line with the 750M/s of SATA III and with four channels, I could use the performance of all four drives in a software raid using the I don't believe that's the case. Seeing as this card is PCIe x2, it's meaningless to have four channels. it negotiates to only x1, and that won't even give you full throughput on even a single high performance SATA SSD card. The garbage is utterly disgusting. This is a misleading specification. Those interested in an x1 pcie connection will find it very expensive, if they are really willing to settle for it. Consumers are probably unaware of how to check, so they figure they won't know how.

Ayden McCarty

| Jul 27, 2020

In terms of SATA ports, my motherboard has more than enough to support my internal and external disks, but its cooling fan is a bit noisy There's a problem with the swap function I will often get a blue screen if I use it on a hot-seat A swappable external disk can be used. (it isn't my boot disk There is no doubt about that, I hope. research on this Vantec card, I determined that the chipset is known for its high reliability in hot environments It would be one thing to swap disks, but it would be another thing to find a card with this chipset that did not also come with Since I'm never going to boot from an external disk and I don't want my computer to be able to boot from it, I didn't want an Option ROM SIOS installed on my add-in SATA card. As a result of waiting for the Option ROM BIOS to synchronize with the onboard BIOS, the system comes up slower. In order to try this experiment, I bought two of these cards Here's all that I have to say- I soldered the Option ROM BIOS chip from the card, and it works now! the card provided me with about 90% of what I needed to begin with, it didn't blow up when I modified it, and it has been reliable for many Four stars is at least what I would give it. A message to It will not get 5 stars if you use a soldered Option ROM BIOS chip you can use an Option ROM BIOS chip that is socketed. People who don't know how to solder can remove it. By adding that socket to this card, it will only cost a few cents more per card, but it will make it more useful to many.

Mabel Caldwell

| Jul 14, 2021

This is not a drive failure, this is a Leaving this hardware alone is not a good idea! The controller worked fine when it was first turned on. 2 HGST 3 TB hard drives were installed in a RAID 1 array. Added a few VMs and some files I was able to use the array normally for about four days, but then it There was no problem with either drive, only that the Mirror was broken. It was recognized that both disks were present by disk manager. Although the contents of these files were vastly different, File Explorer displayed them differently. In one drive, all the content that was transferred was stored, but in the other drive, not much data was stored. However, it took I heard no disk activity over the course of over four days for these drives to fully sync. In order to rebuild the array, all of the data was moved back off the disks. As a result, one of the arrays in the management tool was deleted and the disk space was freed up. I tried to re-build the array after that. It was at this point that the management tool no longer displayed the controller. In device management, it still showed up, but the utility was no longer able to see I restarted my computer and attempted to connect to the controller through the post. However, my computer freezes. Keep as far away from this garbage as you can. Although the price is competitive, the potential risk of a data loss makes it unattractive. You will also be able to manage the RAID controller once Apache has been installed. You need to get rid of garbage, garbage, garbage.

Ariella Simmons

| Jan 17, 2021

The HTPC / media server will be used with this. It used to run Windows Home Server 2011, but I changed over to Windows 8 recently. Sharing it may be improved by repurposing bit) to better suit. You use this Vantec 4-in-1 device in a certain way The six-channel television system An included user's manual explains how to use the card in a very straightforward manner, no matter what type of port card it is. The number of options is actually just four internal, and two external, so we recommend you keep that in mind. You install software, shut down the machine, install the card, boot the machine up, and from the boot-up menu, select CD or DVD drive> Please note that this is not how it should work. There are multiple levels of configuration that you can use for your RAID array (more on that below). The following notes, however, need to be made 2) Out of curiosity, I decided to just connect the card and some drives, fire up, and see what plug and play would do Certainly, play makes the world go round. When using Windows 8, press the Start button. Using the Roccat 1 Pro, the drivers were found and installed, which led to four separate drives being visible. I opted to go a different route and use Boot-strap's boot-up medium instead. If you wanted to use Windows Storage Spaces instead, then you could do it. It is setup at a certain time. After installing the software, when the computer restarted I was able to press the key combination control + M to access the boot menu Software for keeping track of time. 2) I don't think that you can simply attach a bunch of members to this card and be good to go and take an existing RAID array Hard arrays are based on the assumption that you need to build an array for this controller. Soft arrays may have a different story to tell Let me know in the comments if you had a different experience! Whenever you open the boot device, it will say "File not found" When you read the manual first, it's pretty easy to set up the software. You need to choose the disks that the controller sees- you don't need to do anything else. In the following steps, a "Virtual Disk" is created. It is then decided what kind of virtual disk (such as 0, 1, 5, etc. ) you want to create. What's really cool about this boot is that it- In terms of setup time, it would take you a day or two to build an array, just like you could in a data center. Rather than make an array of spinning disks and an SSD, you could use three spinning disks and one SSD. After that, you can either configure the SSD to caching high-speed documents or configure the SSD to cache low-speed documents There are two types of data (demand and stale data), so there is a bit of redundancy as the high-speed disks can be at the same time In both places data about access is available In either case, it would mean the high-speed network is the one that you need Normally, demand files reside on the SSD and get moved to spinning disks when they do not need to be kept on the SSD. It doesn't matter how you handle it, the controller will handle it In this case I'd use RAID 0 of four identical disks because I'd probably use it if I were creating videos. I simply want to stream video, so a RAID 0 of four identical disks was perfect *If you want to build a system with four internal disks, you can use this card to make use of a variety of options (some reviewers mention they are using it with JBOD, too). Having two extra external ports can be useful. However, if you don't need the extra bandwidth, you can disable those ports. The conscious mind. It has so far worked for me well and had a good manual. I also enjoyed the software, as well as the fact that it included a very decent manual.

Noa SWIFT

| Nov 27, 2020

I have no problems with my RAID card. Using this card, 4 mismatched 250g SSDs are combined to make 1T of storage. have been around for a long time and were never really used, so it was cool to put them together like this. I have had no problems in the past two months.
* I use this raid array only for photo and video editing/processing, not as a storage device. This card is PCIe 2 and installs easily. As for the BIOS, it is a straightforward process for setting up the raid. The card must have a PCIe slot with at least 4 channels. My motherboard uses an LGA1155 socket and my CPU is a 3770k. I am updating. As of November 2019, this card is still doing a perfect job with no issues. I ran a crystaldisk benchmark Thanks for reading.

Ermias Barr

| Jul 06, 2021