SATA 4 Port Card with 4 Cables - SATA 3.0 6 Gbps PCIe Controller - Low Profile Bracket Support - 4 Devices

I bought this card mainly to be able to connect my new WD Red Pro NAS 10Tb hard drive (WD102KFBX) because the motherboard of my HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF does not support this fast 6Gb/s drive ( the PC shuts down a few seconds later with this drive connected).My operating system is trueNAS CORE v12 (installed on an internal SSD connected to the motherboard).But before plugging in this new drive, I wanted to test the card with my 2 existing hard drives of 2TB each, which were connected to the motherboard and running on trueNAS.The test with the SATA card went well and the trueNAS operating system saw the drives and continues to run them as before.The only remark is that the BIOS shows the 2 hard drives as Legacy instead of UEFI in the boot order and they are also not visible in the "Device Configuration" panel (see screenshots).On the other hand, when I plugged the 10TB WD Red Pro NAS drive into the SATA card and only this drive (the other 2 drives were unplugged), the trueNAS OS cannot see it.Therefore, the BIOS shows it, but among the Legacy drives instead of UEFI (see screenshot). Also, the device is not visible in "Device Configuration" (unlike the internal SSD).I am using the latest BIOS version that I recently updated (see screenshot).This is my special story with this card... I haven't given up yet... I'm still investigating to make this new drive work as NAS on my PC.

I originally wrote this review some time back ( a couple years maybe? Not sure), and my original reivew stands as-is for a simple PC class machine. Go to the end to see the differences for a somewhat larger machine needing support for more than 2 drives per card. ORIGINAL REVIEW FOLLOWS BELOW. Look for word "*CAVEAT" near the end for the update.Recently the nic in my wife's older Win 7 box died and I needed a replacement. This was a simple drop-it-in-the-box-and-forget-it card, and it works perfectly. The best surprise of all is NO surprises. The card swapping out and bringing up the new card may have taken as much as 10 minutes (including going to the kitchen for a cup of coffee.This one was so easy that I suspect my Airedale could have swapped it out.Definitely recommended (for a simple machine as described here).*CAVEAT*I don't run windows on any of my work machines - the PC-based boxes run linux (primarily redhat and fedora), and are somewhat "larger" in that they have more memory and are used to do things which I wouldn't try to attempt on a windows box. (We're doing high-speed number crunching that we used to do on Crays on these machines, causing 0a heavier load than the most taxing video game does ... or so I expect.)I had a problem requiring the local storage of up to 24 TB of data on a local machine (why? don't ask.) Actually that situation for multiple machines. And my boss decided that we should be able to do solve the problem for a cost as close to "next-to-nothing" as possible. So as cost was an issue my first idea was to try these low-cost cards. So we got a 4 of them and added them to the 4 machines we were using, and began some simple testing (for proof-of-concept). On day 1 we discovered that when these cardss are loaded down with 4 large, fast drives doing non-stop high-speed data storage and retrieval, problems appeared. The primary one was the card would suddenly fail to recognize one or more of the 4 drives on it, so these were out. Insted we used a relatively-expensive card which could reliably handle the storage and the high-speed data-transfer load, etc., but it cost *considerably* more than these. So while these appear to wok well with not more than 2 drives (in a high-load situation) 4 was just outside its scope.My original recommendation for these cards on "normal" machines not making continual insane/gargantuan data transfers still stands. But for something in the "heavy-duty" manipulation arena, the don't quite handle the problem and with their relatively inexpensive cost I don't think anyone should expect them to.

Fitted easily and without fuss, recognised by win 10 ok but, causes my pc to crash constantly, unfortunately had to remove.7/5/23 update after a few win 10 updates I thought I'd give this another chance, now working OK for the last few months, no issues

I used this to add drives to a homemade NAS using TrueNAS Scale. It booted right up without any need to tinker with drivers or settings and read all the new drives I added immediately. I may get one for my gaming PC to add more hard drive space so I can download more games.

I ran out of SATA ports on my motherboard but wanted to add two more drives to my raid array. This card popped in quickly, was instantly recognized, and started working with Ubuntu 24.04 and mdadm without any hassle whatsoever. The only con I've found so far is that there's a blue LED on the card that flashes for IO operations. I haven't found a way to turn that off yet. So far I'm very happy with this card. We'll see how long it holds up.

I'll preface this review by saying there are probably more permutations of PC components than stars in the universe... so my experience may be different than yours. But I'm leaving this review in hopes that someone searching for my same issue finds this and is helped.Installing the card was easy. I put it in a PCI-16x slot. (PCI slots are backwards compatible.) The only problem is that the card was in AHCI mode by default. (It says "Passthrough AHCI") I was not adding a new drive. I was replacing my boot drive, which was in IDE mode. Windows does not like switching. So I received the dreaded "inaccessible boot device" flavor of the blue screen of death.I searched my BIOS to see if I could change this ATA miniport card to IDE mode. Alas, I don't think you can, or at least I couldn't with my motherboard. So after much Googling, I stumbled upon a Microsoft tech support article titled ""INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" error message after you install a third-party ATA-miniport driver or change the SATA mode of the boot drive on Windows 8-based computer," which had steps to resolve the issue.Short version: Before moving your IDE boot drive to this device, you need to force windows to boot into safe mode the next time it starts. (After issuing the command, but before restarting, move your boot drive to this device.) Then when you next boot, safe mode causes Windows to rebuild the storage controllers, and thus support the AHCI boot drive that used to be IDE. Even though I have Windows 10, I followed the steps for Windows 8 and I'm happy to report that I'm typing this review with a faster boot drive happily in my system.4 stars, because it was easy enough to install the physical card, but came with zero documentation (which I expected because... hey, $25). Taking away one star because I had to troubleshoot on my own.