Enhance Your PC's Storage Capabilities with StarTech.com 1 Port eSATA + 1 Port SATA PCI SATA Controller Card Review

This does not work on newer Linux kernels, support told me that an older kernel is required (see ST website for information). This driver is built-in, no need to download a driver and play around with Linux. But that's not the case with the new Linux. I couldn't even learn enough to get something to work/mod with. They only have a Win driver, but Win10 will probably handle that on its own. TBF is PCI so I shouldn't be surprised but the product description should really make that clear. The…

This SATA/eSATA adapter board works great on my 10 year old PC. Unfortunately, my motherboard or bios doesn't allow me to boot from this device like I was hoping. This is probably not due to the product at all and most likely due to the outdated nature of the motherboard I am using.

Includes a flat mount. Turned off the PCI slot. This card allows you to use eSATA on older computers, but only on Windows with the VIA RAID drivers provided on a small CD. I use it to back up my disk with image for windows to an external drive. It takes 15 minutes. If I need to restore a disk I will not use this card - I will plug the disk with the backup into a free SATA port for the BIOS to see and BootItBM, which boots from USB, will use the backup to do that restore drive. If your computer…

The card is easy to install - just plug it into the PCI slot and run the included driver installation CD. This gives you an internal SATA connector and an external connector. However, as I found out and confirmed with the company, do not use this card if you intend to connect a SATA DVD or CD drive to your computer. It is designed for SATA hard drives only. It worked fine for me when I connected a hard drive to it, but it didn't work with an optical drive.

It wasn't very good as shown in the listing, some options are missing during production, severely limiting throughput. I had other VIA expansion buses and had similar problems. I also did a little research on where the company came from and it didn't seem like a very good source to me.

I've already needed to increase storage space on an old PC and have used this card to connect a SATA drive to a Windows XP PC. When I had to do the same thing again, I went back to that trusty SATA controller. Important Security Tip: You cannot use a SATA drive as a boot drive on a Windows XP computer.