IO Crest 4 Port SATA III Mini Pci-E Controller Card Components Other SI-MPE40125

I recently completed a home media server built on an Intel H97N mini itx motherboard with WiFi. The case I chose supported a total of 10 hard drives, but the motherboard only supported 6. The PCIe slot was already being used by the quad TV tuner for recording local channels.This is where this little guy comes into play. By removing the WiFi card and installing this mini PCIe to quad SATA adapter, I was able to take advantage of all ten hard drive slots. Also allowing for my back up RAID drives to be readily available, in the same case as my main RAID drives.I cannot say enough good things about this little gem. The transfer speeds are in line with what I expected (200mbs). easy to install. And it just plain works.Get it if you need it.

Wasn't sure if this would work out of the box but it does in the Intel D525MW. I am using FreeNAS 11.3 and simply plugged in and it worked, no drivers needed to be installed. There were some other posters who said some of the pins needed to be shorted but was not the case. Was concerned about the screws which are necessary to hold down the board, they are included along with (4) data cables, power cables are not included.

I haven't gotten this to work with Linux yet. Linux doesn't have native support for this right out of the gate. It does come with a driver CD (but the CD has drivers for all of the companies products so that will take some detective work). I believe I'll have to compile the driver for the kernel and perform some sort of modprobe before I can get this to work.Wanted to give this product a positive rating because we need more inventions like this in the world. It's no ones fault that Linux doesn't recognize it with the current system kernel release. I would really love an easier way to get this up and going. I wasn't planning to use this with RAID but the drivers that look like they'd be the right one to make it work are in a folder labeled RAID.

I installed this in an old, atom-based computer I have. I run UNRAID on it, and needed SATA ports that were at least a little faster than a PCI card could supply. I slotted this in, and it JUST WORKED. Can't speak for any other OS, but did exactly what I needed.

First off let me say that the "driver disk" isn't actually that it is in actuality an os murder disk you install the "driver" then your computer stops wanting to react to the simplest of commands like clicking open start now makes your whole bar vanish and your system corrupts itself completely so yeah is supports windows 10 if you want your computer to stop working... And beyond that I have never gotten this thing to function with any driver at all. So in conclusion DON'T waste your money it isn't worth it at all!

Works great

I had to build a custom mounting bracket to keep a fan pointed on this at all times, but even that wasn't sufficient. The overheating caused my drives (in storage spaces parity mode) to intermittently be dropped, resulting in corrupted data and bad sectors. Two 8tb drives were ruined. This only happened during writes, and required all of the drives be disconnected, the card being cooled completely, and the system being restarted before the sata drives could be recognized again. Super cheap.

Heat issues or a need to consider the use environment?Many people have reported in other reviews that it overheats, and this would be correct, if you do nothing other than insert this card and then try to run heavy workloads across it. Use cases such as in a NAS / Raid environment, without any changes to cooling, it will indeed overheat. To use this is such an application you should be sure to do one or both of the following:1. Have a fan in a position where it is able to blow air past the on board heatsink, this doesn't have to be super high CFM BUT it must move the hot air away from the controller/chip2. Replace the original heatsink with one of higher quality and use a good thermal glue to adhere it for best thermal connectivity to pull heat away from the chip as efficiently as possibleAdditionally, if you are going to use this in an temperature controlled / datacenter application then the included passive cooling should be enough to keep this cool as is.I actually experienced heat issues initially until I stepped back and better considered the environment I was running it in, the most likely planned use for this was for commercial 'temperature controlled' uses where passive cooling is already implemented in advance in the case or environment. As such, I employed a replacement heatsink using a quality thermal glue and added a 5v fan to constantly push air past the heatsink to keep the chip cool under loads and it works great/reliably. Have one of these in production use for almost a year now.TL:DR:Applications where ambient is 70F or more you should really employ additional cooling measures for long term stability of the board.