
- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality

I needed more sata ports, and my motherboard only had 3. This allowed me to add 4 more ports, and thus 4 more hard drives. The card was recognized by windows 10, so I had no driver issues. The card worked so great that I ended up buying another card.


very reliable.



standard card, no drivers needed for OS

Great Raid card that's extremely Quick (would be perfect for lots of SSD's) Easy to Setup

Works with my desktop motherboard. Worked right out of the box with little effort. Fast. Using ArgusMonitor benchmark it reads 26% (414 Mb/s vs 329Mb/s) faster, but writes 8% slower (381Mb/s vs. 416Mb/s) than the on-board Intel RAID controller in a 4x2TB RAID 0 array. I can expand to more drives later.



Super fast file transfer Recognized all of my 24 WD 12TB HDDs upon drivers install without any issues. Comes in IT mode firmware preinstalled so great right out of the box. Extremely well constructed.


Using this card with the StarTech 8 bay full of drives (3-6TB) with no issues now for over a year. Much more reliable than USB. I like the setup so much I would like to add another 8 bay.


Awesome performance and ability to mount nearly anywhere. The power connector on the top can be used instead of plugging the card into a slot, but using a slot is generally easier if one is available.


- Works out of the box on FreeBSD 11 - No issues with 4Kn drives

No installation required, worked OOB in OSX with no drivers or setups. Booting RAID 0 with no problems.
