Review on 🔥 LinksTek PCIE FireWire Card for Windows Desktop PCs - IEEE 1394A FireWire 400-6Pin X3 Ports and 4Pin X1 Port - Compatible with Windows 98/2000/2003/XP/ Vista/7/8/8.1/10/Server (32/64bit) - Includes Low Profile Bracket (PCIE-1394A) by Justin Vasquez

Easy to install, worked the first time and seems to handle anything I throw at it. I expected it to be more of a pain in the ass, so that was a relief. Update 5 months later: I'm sorry I had to downgrade this review to 1 star. About 3 months after I first tested this product, I noticed a decrease in data transfer speed - I ran some tests and instead of 200MB/s I got a write speed of about 30MB/s, which is about twice as much. reading speed. If that was the only issue I'd probably downgrade it to a 3 star rating - it's a budget controller and most likely just didn't have the bandwidth for the heavy use I've put it through. I went ahead and bit the bullet and bought an enterprise class controller for 20x the price of this one - I wasn't even upset, I just wanted to move this card to another computer that doesn't have the same load and get on with my day. That's when I started moving data off existing disks to migrate to the new array - they got incredibly slow during continuous reads, which should be the fastest operations - and every few hours one of the disks would fail, and so would I it must do restart the computer. This made the data migration a tedious task of figuring out which files were successfully copied and then starting a new migration from that file - and generally made me question the card's reliability. To be honest if the card is just going to have a few drives and isn't a heavy user and you don't need any of the features it's not a terrible $15 card - you could do a lot worse but I'll bet you 10 - $20 more, you could do a lot better too.