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New Zealand, Wellington
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Review on πŸ”Œ Efficient PCIe SATA Card: Electop SATA III 6 Gbps Expansion Controller for Desktop PC – Supports 5 Ports with Cables, JMB585/SATA 3.0 Non-Raid by Cody Siger

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Linux should run on it. but the system locks up after a few minutes

I like the look of this card, it's clean and well designed with a degree of eye appeal. Removed verification after replacing the internal power cable, which actually caused the issue to occur immediately after installing this card. The IT cable connection caused intermittent power outages to the large external hard drive array, causing the system bus to shake and the system to freeze completely.]</i>I bought this because I wanted to add two extra large hard drives to an existing server had to add and I had no SATA connectors on both the MB and the existing PCIe card with only 2 SATA connectors. After looking at all the existing cards, this one looked fine and said it supported Linux. After resolving issues causing the system to freeze, this board was not the culprit and it worked very well after diagnosing and fixing the other issue. corrected. This doesn't run on Windows, but on Fedora Linux FC32 on a Gigabye Aorus Master X570 MB with 32 GB RAM and an 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 3700X processor. Someone reported that this board worked fine on another version of Linux and the results on this machine are about the same as on this system. for the drives on this card and the PCIe specification for this PCIe MB slot. I have no idea if this board works on Windows or how it works, so I can't recommend it for Windows. But I can and would recommend it for use on any Linux system that requires additional 6GB sata ports. (May I prefer pcie 3.x? Yes, but it's not what I paid for - and I haven't found one yet that I can justify the cost of here.)

Pros
  • I/O port cards
Cons
  • Update availability