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

Excellent delivery. The map looks beautiful. The install went fine (Server 2012 R2, manual install) but the OS wasn't listed for support, but adding it manually made it faster. The biggest problem (see picture) is that the SATA1-8 labels are NOT CORRECT! I ended up having to connect a drive, boot the machines, wait for the SATA summary screen to appear, and highlight the drive's port. As you can see SATA 1=2, 1=1, 3=1 and all others=3.5 Port 3s and it only shows the first 4 drives connected but not in rank/port number. Drives 5-8 show up in Windows but not in the BIOS overview or map screen. After everything was installed everything was fine; However, due to manual logging of the ports, it took 3 hours. With ECC RAM on the server, loading is not very fast. What should have taken 20-30 minutes wasted a lot more time. The card works well, it needs to be stress tested later.