Review on 💾 MZHOU 16 Port SATA PCle Expansion Card - Boost your Storage with 6 SATA 3.0 Devices and 16 Cables! by Marcelo Montalvo

I was very concerned about this product after reading some reviews and playing around with the flash process on the LSI card before returning it. Much to my surprise, I plugged this card into my Hp Compaq Elite 8300 Small Form Factor (i5, 8GB RAM, 3 of the 4 SATA ports on board were already full) and it just worked. I connected this to a PCI M.2X2 card and now I have 15 drives mixed NVMe, SATA SSD and HDD working perfectly. Definitely recommend. Maybe I'm just lucky that my motherboard works with this card, but my advice to you is if it doesn't work after some driver fiddling, try a different brand. These cards tend to be special, and it's not entirely the fault of the manufacturers. The card looks well made, let's see how it holds up under the constant load of a home media server.