4 Ports PCI SATA Raid Controller Internal Expansion Card with 2 Sata Cables, PCI to SATA Adapter Converter for Desktop PC Support HDD SSD

This product doesn't have many reviews, so here goes: It works! I am running windows xp home 64-bit on a dell dimension 4600, and this card was easy to physically install, connect sata cables to, and worked right away on start up. I was able to install the drivers from the mini disc, easy peasy. It was truly plug and play. So, to recap, if you have an ancient computer (ide motherboard w/ an available pci slot) and are using an outdated OS (like windows xp), then, this card will bring your retro machine one step closer to current.

Its a simple PCI card so installation should not be a issue. I was worried a bit at first when I installed this into my second machine, as I needed to configure my boot sequence. This does work perfectly and I am now using my hard drives in raid in only a short time. It did take some time to clone my current one, but that's a software thing vs the limiting capabilities of the card.

I purchased the PCI SATA Raid Controller to add more SATA ports to my homegrown NAS PC. The PC recognized the controller at POST and the controller's BIOS displayed the size of the SSD drive I attached. Linux automatically recognized the drive controller card, but did not recognize that an SSD drive was attached. With some Google searching I found articles that said that the SIL3114 control does not appear to support SSD drives. I swapped out the SSD drive for an old spinning HD drive and Linux recognized the drive.

finding the correct drivers for win10 took some time and testing. program is pretty sparse in options. i did accomplish the goal of having additional sata ports for a raid 0 set up in a dell optiplex. transfer speeds are usb2 like, i suspect that is all that's supported on the pci slot. overall served my purpose of having a raid0 for data backup/expanded disc capacity.

Put it in, turned on computer and it installed itself with no errors in the device manager. plugged in my 2nd SSD and a new removable drive bay. Turned on computer and it fired right up with everything working great. I'm running Windows 10 on a Lenovo ThinkTank. I'm so happy I could dance on the roof, if I could get there!

Popped it into an older Dell desktop. Showed up in POST. Hooked up a brand new Seagate 4TB drive and the adapter sees it. I'm not looking for RAID, I just need a SATA adapter for an IDE box. Install Ubuntu to the primary IDE drive and it can see the Seagate during the build.Try to run parted and it hangs. After about 5 minutes, I manage to get out of parted, but the system can no longer see the drive. I reboot and now the adapter no longer sees the drive during POST. I try different ports, different SATA cables, different IPCI slots, and multiple reboots. Zip. It no longer sees the drive.I put the drive into a functioning Windows box and I can immediately go into disk manager and initialize the disk, build a volume and format the drive. Put the drive back on the SATA adapter and it doesn't see it.There is no utility to go into the adapter to reset the card. You cannot even get into the card if it doesn't see a drive attached. There were no instructions included. No troubleshooting steps.Waste of $18 and a couple of hours time.During my troubleshooting, I came across many sites that mention this chipset as being of questionable quality and/or reliability.Avoid

Fortunately it died before the 30 day warranty expired. Maybe I just got a bad card, but Im going to try a usb-3 pci card instead. Really need more products like this for older mbs.

I bought this to expand how many Sara drives I could plug in. Sceptical on my plan with my computer I bought pretty much the cheapest one so I could try it. Turns out this was what I needed. Being this is pci and NOT pcie it did not interfere with all my new hardware filling every other pcie slot. It boots to bios screen then to the raid controller and then pauses and boots. I'm running it on an asus z97 an i74790k. I liked that it came with software to probably configure the raid but I just plug and play worked great for me.