🚀 Upgrade Your Data Transfers with the NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G Pro PCIe 2.0 Controller Card – Reaching up to 500MB/s! Review

For a relatively small amount, this card offers an absolutely massive speed boost when copying stuff. Sometimes these cards connect to Macs via click-to-play, but this card has been rock solid for me so far and didn't require absolutely zero setup. Completely plug and play.

I ordered this based on lots of online research to connect my new external RAID system to my 2010 Mac Pro. I installed it and it worked the first time with no problems. Hard drive tests show that this card is even faster than my internal drives. Excellent purchase

I'm so glad I didn't buy a Mac Pro "Black Cylinder". Mid 2010 installed Mac Pro Installation time 5130 seconds. Automatic detection without additional software. About twice as fast as FireWire 800. It's nice to be able to expand and improve your computer by installing different components in it.

I bought this card for an older i3 on an EVGA P55 motherboard. I am using esata to connect to a Raid 5 enclosure. I had very slow write speeds for a while and was frustrated with changing hard drives, cables and eventually the enclosure itself. Nothing worked. I finally got this to rule out the Esata port as the cause, even though the Esata ports are rated at 3Gbps on the motherboard. The motherboard manufacturer stopped releasing new drivers two years ago. All you have to do is plug this card…

This card worked fine in my Mac Pro 5.1. Speeds up loading and significantly speeds up data transfer from an external drive. FireWire slowed down bootcamp significantly, and using this card with esata fixed the problem. Also, hibernation and shutdown work fine on both OS X and Bootcamp windows.

I had an older Voyager USB, FireWire, eSata dock that I wanted to use with this card, but got it disconnected again and again after intensive use. I didn't know if it was the dock or the card so I decided to try a different dock (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005UA3I72) and both the card and the dock work fine, none sleep / off problems. I would definitely recommend this card to anyone who has an older, non-USB3 Mac Pro and wants more speed from their external drives.

I bought this card to fix a problem I had with an old card that was causing the PC to freeze while the BIOS was checking my external drives recognized it, but apparently I've also greatly improved the transfer speed compared to this card. This card is so short (3 inches) that it fits in a x1 PCIe slot that no other card in my system would fit, freeing up the x16 slot for something else. If this card doesn't fail in the future or cause other problems, this is a great buy.

I installed this card on my desktop PC with an Asus motherboard running Windows 7 and it was literally intuitive. It was recognized immediately and my two E-Sata drives connected straight away. I love how much faster I can access the contents of my drive than USB connections. Also, if you are using Windows XP, you need to download and install the driver separately. This didn't work for me on my XP machine, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.