Header banner
Revain logoHome Page
io crest 4 port sata iii pci-e 3.0 x1 expansion card non-raid with low profile bracket – asmedia 1064 si-pex40156 sata controller logo

IO CREST 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 3.0 x1 Expansion Card Non-Raid with Low Profile Bracket – ASMedia 1064 SI-PEX40156 SATA Controller Review

4

·

Average

Revainrating 3.5 out of 5  
Rating 
3.3
🧰 Computer Internal Components, 💻 Computer Components

View on AmazonView on ЯM

Media

(1)
img 1 attached to IO CREST 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 3.0 x1 Expansion Card Non-Raid with Low Profile Bracket – ASMedia 1064 SI-PEX40156 SATA Controller

Details

BrandIO CREST
Hardware InterfaceSATA 6.0 Gb/s, PCI Express 3.0
Item Dimensions LxWxH2.5 x 4.5 x 0.75 inches
Item Weight0.12 Pounds

Description of IO CREST 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 3.0 x1 Expansion Card Non-Raid with Low Profile Bracket – ASMedia 1064 SI-PEX40156 SATA Controller

Chipset: ASMedia 1064. 4 Internal SATA 6Gb/s Ports. SATA ports are bootable. Compliant with Serial ATA Specification 3.0. Hot Plug and Hot Swap. Compliant with PCI-Express Specification v1.0. Supports Native Command Queue (NCQ). Supports Port Multiplier FIS Based Switching or Command Based Switching.

Reviews

Global ratings 4
  • 5
    1
  • 4
    1
  • 3
    1
  • 2
    0
  • 1
    1

Type of review

Revainrating 3 out of 5

ASMedia 1064 Slower than Marvel 8215 controller.

Comparison of two Crest I/O controllers. The ASMedia 1064 controller is smaller and has status indicators. It should be a faster PCIe 3, but my tests showed it to be slower than the Marvel 9215 controller. Maybe new drivers and utilities will help. The Marvel controller has a heatsink that gets hot. The ASMedia controller has no heatsink and generates no heat. A tiny driver CD is included with both controllers. You need to navigate to the controller installation folder. Other folders are for…

Pros
  • I/O boards
Cons
  • Basically OK, but...

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Works well on Windows 10 - You get the full speed of the PCIE Gen3 x1 interface

This works well on Windows 10. The drivers are automatically installed before you get to the desktop. the speed of the PCIE Gen3 x1 interface, which is the bottleneck here when using two ports at the same time. What I mean is that for actual powering of 2 SATA ports you need about 10Gbps on a PCIE bus slot (meaning you need a x2 slot). Here in the PCIE x1 slot, a single SATA port offers a full speed of 530-540 MB/s, but if you use both (Aggregate or Stripe/RAID0) you won't get the 1000 MB/s+…

Pros
  • SCSI connector cards
Cons
  • Available in black only

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Works well but many superficial annoyances

Two additional hard drives connected easily. You don't need any drivers or anything like that. In the PCI-e 3.0 slot, the speeds are identical to what I got from my SATA ports, even when used at the same time. (But these are 5400 RPM drives only). My only complaints are completely superficial. This adds a few seconds delay to boot by showing a screen listing the installed drives. I have no idea if this is necessary or not, but it's annoying. There are also some completely unnecessary, extremely

Pros
  • Internal components
Cons
  • Many

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Total waste of money

This card will NOT boot WinXP or Win10 20H2. On a test system it messed up the MBR and failed to boot Win10. The REPAIR function of a fresh Win10 installation provides BOOTREC /NT60 SYS, which fixed the problem manually. If the test disk is RAW, Win10 will not boot and destroy the MBR of the system disk. I connected the test drive to the SATA connectors on the board and then formatted it as a simple volume. a system drive connected to a SATA-II system board. This card does NOT increase speed…

Pros
  • Computer components
Cons
  • May damage