Review on 🖥️ LTERIVER PCIE to 4-Ports SATA 3.0 Host Controller Card for Windows Server, XP, 7, 8.0, 8.1, 10 (32/64), AHCI and IDE Boot Support - 4X Max 6Gbps SATA 3.0 Non-Raid Ports (PCE-G2S4) by Michael Hemmig

My low power, low noise home NAS box project started with an updated ASRock J4105 Celeron quad core fanless motherboard with 8GB RAM but only dual SATA on board. III connectors. This 4 port card allowed me to fit 4 hot swappable 3.5" bays on a single card. I have configured Open Media Vault to use two 3TB Hitachi drives in a mirrored configuration and when I transfer movies from my workstation to the OVM NAS, the gigabit connection is the speed-limiting factor (maximum about 83MB/ s what is normal for a home system). ). So it works, does what I need, supports software RAID on my NAS, and I didn't use any of the other features built into the card just because I needed the extra ports. This card uses a PCIE 2.0 x4 connection with a maximum bandwidth of 2 gigabits per second, which is good for a NAS on a gigabit LAN as the network accounts for half of the card's bandwidth. For example, video editing or content creation, you should purchase a PCIE 3.0 x8 or PCIE 2.0 x16 card to get a SATA controller card that can maximize the SATA connection speed up to 6 gigabits per second.