Review on Rivo PCIe SATA Card, 8-Port with 8 SATA Cable, SATA Controller Expansion Card incl. Low Profile Bracket, Marvell 9215 Non-Raid, Bootable as System Disk, Support for 8 SATA 3.0 Devices (SA3014) by Zac Pewitt

Name: Rivo PCIe SATA Card, 8-Port with 8 SATA Cable, SATA Controller Expansion Card incl. Low Profile Bracket, Marvell 9215 Non-Raid, Bootable as System Disk, Support for 8 SATA 3.0 Devices (SA3014)
Item: Rivo PCIe SATA Card, 8-Port with 8 SATA Cable, SATA Controller Expansion Card incl. Low Profile Bracket, Marvell 9215 Non-Raid, Bootable as System Disk, Support for 8 SATA 3.0 Devices (SA3014)
Rating: 5

November 03, 2022

Unreliable, do not use for software RAID!

Many reviews mention that these cards are unreliable. I've had them for a few weeks now and I have to agree. I bought these to upgrade my media server after an old card I was using failed. Completely rebuilt the server with new drives and had some "weird" issues. It's hard to explain the quirks, software RAID errors that (thankfully) I was able to recover manually. The only thing that seemed certain was that these problems occurred when the software RAID received more data bandwidth. However, I'm using a maximum of 4 ports on each card and the card can't handle that. I'm upgrading to an LSI controller.

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