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The product is satisfactory if you don't need to plug an optical drive or ESATA hard drive into it. For optical drives and ESATA hard drives to work, you have to stick with the driver that comes with the card (Assuming it's the 3.0.2.0 driver, dated 10/23/2014). I tried all the more recent driver versions found on the internet (3.1.6.0, 3.1.8.0, 3.1.9.0, 3.2.1.0, and 3.2.3.0). Using any of these later drivers causes a crash with a Blue Screen of Death INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR, with argument 1 = 608. 608 says driver has attempted to transition a component to idle without a preceding active request. ASMedia technical support was contacted, but did not respond. I mention this because you might need a more current driver version if the provided one becomes obsolete due to a future Windows 10 biannual update. You would then need to access optical drives and ESATA hard drives from different ports, other than ports on this card.Read full review
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I had a PC without functioning SATA ports thus it was useless, this little device made it work again machine can now boot properly. Please notice this NEEDS SATA III cables in order to work, at first I thought it was a faulty card until I used SATA III cables.
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6 SATA ports over pci-express x4. My SSD can pull 500+MB/s over it so beats my SATA II 3GB/s motherboard ports. Needed extra ports for more drives and it performs better than the old PCI based card I was using.
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i was kinda prepared for everything.. but so far so good. if some of the 0 or 1 ports are unplugged, there's a bogus hdds with traces of 1091 controllers being showed in the system, apart from that - no problem whatsoever
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Drives connected to this card don't show in BIOS, but do show in File Explorer and Disk Management and partition tools such as MiniTool Partition wizard. Haven't tested to see if a connected optical drive can be booted from.
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