Ableconn PEX-SA156 6-Port SATA 6G PCI Express x4 Host Adapter Card - AHCI 6Gbps SATA III Port-Multiplier PCIe 3.0 4-Lane Low Profile Controller Card (ASMedia ASM1166)
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Computer Engineering and Computer Science were my majors in college. I'm fairly computer savvy, and this was the best non-commercial add-on I'd ever seen. I was able to locate a Raid PCIe Sata Card. br>br>It uses one of the only two chipsets that support PCIe 3. 0 that I could find on Amazon (at the time). 0 standard, which provides up to twice the bandwidth of PCIe 2. The ASMedia ASM1166 chipset is used in this card, which meets the 0 standard. The other PCIe 3. 0 compatible chipset I discovered is this one. The Zhiwei JMB585 chipset is represented by the number 0. PCIe 2 is the most common type of add-in Sata port card available. 0 and can only handle half of the bandwidth of the new PCIe 3. It also uses an x4 slot, as opposed to the slow x1 slot used by other options. It also includes 6 sata ports, hot swapping, and a port multiplier (which allows you to connect an external drive bay with multiple drives to a single sata port). This card can theoretically connect up to 30 drives, but I haven't tried it and can't say how well it works. I was planning on using a multi-faceted approach. drive an external bay, but the power supply on these external bays is insufficient to support multiple high-power draws 3. There are five in drives. They usually only allow for a maximum of two. 5 in drives with a lot less power consumption br>br>At this point, the operating system you're using doesn't matter when it comes to booting. The bios is usually the first to start the boot process. When it came to booting up the system, I had exactly the opposite experience as a previous reviewer. I recently purchased a mid-range computer. Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro Wi-Fi Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro Wi-Fi Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro Wi-Fi Gigabyte Fi Motherboard: This is a new motherboard that was still available on Amazon this past Christmas. It is equipped with the most recent BIOS version. Even so, when running it in UEFI mode, it would not boot to any drive. When using this add-in card in UEFI mode, I had to boot the system from an internal motherboard sata port. However, once I changed the BIOS to legacy support, I was able to boot to any drive connected to any port on this add-in card, including hard drives, blu-ray drives, and USB flash drives. dvd-players and blu-ray drives drives with roms When using this card in UEFI mode, no drives connected would show up in the BIOS screen, and you wouldn't be able to select any as a boot drive. br>br>I've been using all 6 ports on this card because I have a lot of hard drives, and it's been very stable and working fine for almost 2 months (I bought this card in February 2021). I do recommend this card, but you should try it out in both legacy and UEFI mode to see which one works best with your motherboard.
Installed in a PCIE2 x8 slot on a GA-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX EX58- UD5 motherboard (circa 2010), running Windows 7, with updated bios version f13u. The OS picked up on the card right away. The card's attached data drives were also recognized and performed as expected. However, no boot drive connected to this card could boot the system (I tried a SATA SSD drive and then a SATA hard drive). The problem appears to be with the non-UEFI legacy bios on the old motherboard. The claim is why I gave it a four-star rating: "PCIe x4 Lanes board with UEFI and Legacy Boot ROM support. " Work with legacy or UEFI motherboards. " This card may not support a boot drive on older legacy systems, according to reports. Adding SATA3 (6GBps) support for data drives to older systems is still a viable option.
Installation was flawless on a desktop PC running Windows 7/64 with native drivers. br> Connected two ports to ESATA headers on the back PC slot bracket, which are used with external storage enclosuresbr>br>- The only drawback is the 4x slower startup time with the card than without it; I'm not sure if this is due to polling the ports during boot-up.
I built a NAS with 7x 12tb WD Red's and leftover parts on a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master, and it worked perfectly. br>br>There is no need for any software, drivers, or CDs.
I couldn't be more pleased.
It does exactly what I want it to.
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