Nov 27, 2018 · PCIe SATA expansion card does not necessarily mean Port Multiplier. To put it differently, a PCIe SATA expansion card is a PCIe card, that adds another (typically AHCI) host controller that provides SATA connectors, just like the AHCI controller on the mainboard.

Mar 5, 2019 · My slant is more toward trouble-free than latest-and-greatest because troubleshooting time is hard to come by. My motherboard has 6 onboard slots, but all are in use (2 x SSD cache drives, 3 x HDD array/parity drives, 1 x Bluray disk drive that's rarely used). I have an UnRAID plus license, so I may as well aim for a 6+ port SATA expansion card.

Mar 5, 2019 · The board has 6 sata 3 ports in which I have 4 x 4tb HDD's and 2 SSD's (240gb and 128gb) and an alternative would be to get some kind of PCI-e card that I can sit an ssd or m.2 drive onto and free the 2 on board sata ports for my other 2 2tb drives. Hope that all makes sense, I'm not sure what the best route is. EDIT by moderation:

Mar 5, 2019 · IO CREST SI-PEX40138 Internal 4 Port Non-Raid SATA III 6GB/S with M.2 B-Key 22x42 Pci-E X4 Controller Card for Desktop PC Support SSD and HDD with Low Profile Bracket.

Mar 5, 2019 · Excellent. That being said, would be be unwise to over provision your PCIe x1 throughput by adding more disks than you have throughput? for example using a 4 port SATA controller on PCI 1.0. If you leave your parity drive on MOBO dedicated SATA and your cache on MOBO dedicated SATA, one would believe it is fine to over provision or am I missing something? I am trying to think of a scenario ...

Apr 26, 2010 · As long at the BIOS on both the SATA card and on your motherboard support it, then yes you should be able to boot from it. Most SATA and motherboard BIOS' do support this these days. You may/will have to adjust the boot order in your motherboard BIOS setup to get the expansion card to boot first.

Jan 29, 2021 · My MB is a GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5, with no PCIe slots occupied other than the 1x slot currently taken by the apparently-crap SATA card I already bought lol. Edited October 1, 2021 by Sandwich

Aug 20, 2021 · Chip: ASMedia ASM1166 PCIE X 1 TO SATA 3.0 PCIe X1 to 6 SATA 3.0 ports controller card offers a simple connection between a host computer and SATA 3.0 devices (SATA hard drive or SATA device), which allows 6 SATA devices at the speed up to 6Gb/s.

Feb 29, 2016 · Hello all, First post. I'm trying to install a Sedna SE-PCIE-SATA6G-02, PCIE SATA III 2-port adapter into my computer but it doesn't seem to be recognized by Windows 10. I've recently added an SSD drive to my system and had to load the AHCI driver by booting into safe mode to do so. I'm wondering if I need to do something similar with this.

Jul 12, 2011 · The PCIe 2.0 specification defines 1x slot bandwidth as 500 MB/s, which is much higher than SATA-II. If you were to purchase such a card (like this one), it has a data transfer rate of 4.69 Gbps. SATA uses 8b/10b encoding, which translates to a raw maximum speed of 469 MB/s. Compared to SATA-II, which caps out at 300 MB/s, you have 1.5x the ...