Pros: -Works with native Windows MSACHI drivers I got close to native SATA III speeds with a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB on an old Gigabyte P55-UD3R motherboard AS-SSD SeqTest Read 486.55 MB/s Write 296.61 MB/s 4K Read 20.04 MB/s Write 65.02 MB/s Was a bit faster than the ASMedia 1061 card.

Cons: -Marvel drivers are terrible, stick with the msachi drivers -Requires a PCIe V2 slot, in PCIe slot performance will be SATAII like.

Overall Review: Use HWiNFO064 to check your PCIe slots prior to buying this card, not worth it if your ports are not PCIE V2.

Pros: This card supports eSATA connections and you can connect a Port Multiplier (two actually) to this card. I would have to look back at the documentation to be sure but I think this card supports a maximum of 10 drives. I used it with two Rosewill RX305 4B hard drive, hot swap units. Each of the Rosewill units hods 4 drives and has a eSATA cable to connect to the SYBA card. This was a really reliable solution for me that I used with BSD Unix to make a server.

Cons: The card did everything I wanted it to do. I wouldn't say there was a con.

Overall Review: I used this card in Windows 7, Linux and BSD Unix. It is very well supported and does what it is supposed to do.

Pros: Installed this on my Windows 8.1 Media Center server. This card says it can do RAID 0,1, and 10, but I didn't try that. Mostly got for e-sata ports on the back in JBOD mode for a Mediasonic enclosure using Storage Space - but ended up using one of the internal SATA ports as well. Performance is good.

Cons: You do have to update the driver from the on the IOCrest website. Not exactly intuitive, the one you need is Marvell92xx and I installed every INF in the folder until one worked. The ones on the driver CD didn't work for me.

Overall Review: Kind of spendy, but I needed it, the motherboard I have doesn't have an e-sata port on it, and even it it did, many don't have the port multiplier ability. This card fits the bill.

Pros: Double the speeds of Sata II. Benchmarked two SSDs. One an OCZ 60 gb soild 3 and one Intel 80 GB Sata III. Saw 540 read and 510 write on the Intel and on the OCZ 530 Read and 480 write. This card is 100% plug and play, my bios recognized it immediately and so did windows. No need to install any drivers whatsoever. Windows loads faster and games load faster.

Cons: Have no need for the esata in the back, i think i paid double the price to get esata which i may never use. There are cards that dont offer any esata that are half the price made by the same company.

Overall Review: When in bios where it says marvel driver and it gives all the info of the HDDs it also only says 5GB/s as oppose to 6GB/s. As long as im getting the rated speeds for the SSDs i dont really care. I put this into a still very functional X-58 motherboard in a PCI-E X16 slot.

Pros: Very simple to install, add the drivers and even to identify as boot device by my Bios.

Cons: None so far

Pros: See Previous Review for most of the pros. I can add that Samsung Magician software works fine using this controller.

Cons: This would have been fairly straight forward with good documentation, so I stand by docking the product an egg for poor instructions.

Overall Review: I ended up installing the driver for the controller, even though windows can see the drive without it. With the default driver, windows saw my boot disk as a removable drive, like a thumb drive, and I was worried that I would someday eject it by mistake. To install the driver, browse provided CD, run X:\Marvell\91XX_92XX Setup\drvSetup.exe. Once the driver is installed and following a reboot or two, you will see the controller in Device Manager - it won't show up until you install the driver. To get windows to recognize the drive as a fixed disk, I had to change the properties for the controller to disable "safely remove disk", followed by a reboot. I don't really care about the esata ports, but I suspect that I this setting means that I cannot hot plug them if I ever use them.

Pros: - External SATA ports are fast and reliable when they work - Unit adds two additional internal ports

Cons: I'm using this unit in a home built Linux file server. It has the really strange behavior of not recognizing devices attached to the external ports unless the computer has been completely power cycled. If I reboot the machine the card will not see any of the devices attached to the external ports. I have to power the box down, unplug the power cord from the computer for a few seconds, and then power the box back up in order for the card to detect my attached enclosure. It's not that much of an issue since I've managed to maintain pretty long uptimes.

Overall Review: If you can maintain relatively long uptimes with your Linux box, this card is okay. Otherwise, stay away.

Pros: PCIE x2

Cons: It is a "chinese" product that is not compatible with SATA III solid states drives It is too expensive for a tentative compatibility with SATA III HDDs - up to $9.99 could be a deal for those who still wanna kill their time

Overall Review: Stick to LSI or other respectable names