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Your cart is empty.The PEXESAT322I PCI Express SATA III Controller Card (6 Gbps) gives you the option to add 2 internal or external SATA ports to your computer, through a single PCI Express (x1) card slot. The card features on board jumper selection, which enables you to configure the card to provide 2 internal or external SATA III ports, or one of each, as needed. The SATA III card features Port Multiplier (PM) support on each port, which allows multiple drives to be connected over a single cable when necessary to maximize the number of SATA device connections while reducing the amount of cabling required. The card is fully compliant with the SATA revision 3.0 specification (up to 6Gbps of data bandwidth), enabling you to utilize the speeds of high performance hard drives and Solid State Drives (SSD), as well as SATA-based optical drives (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Blu-Ray)..
shorty
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2025
Was easy to install, no fuss or muss. Accepted my drive without issue. Games install and load VERY quickly. Probably the single biggest upgrade to my computer since 1994 when I bought a 1MB Trident VESA card for Doom.
marpuff
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2025
It does add two independent(either one internal and one external ;; or two external ;; or two internal) and it works and functions without any problems.
b.cunliffe
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2024
Device works as expected. Plug and Play with Windows 11 (MSI motherboard / AM4 CPU). Makes for a good option for dual boot, especially if the Motherboard only has 1 NVMe slot from years ago.
skookum
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2024
I used this to hook up two external SATA drive enclosures to my new computer. The card fit perfectly in my computer. I installed it and plugged in my drives and started up my machine. I then installed the latest driver from the startech.com site (nice site, BTW). Some of my drives were not recognized. I had to go into Windows Disk Management, where they were listed as Foreign Disks. Once they were "imported" Windows read the disks just fine.Everything seemed to work fine. But then, after working on the computer for about 15 minutes, got a blue screen of death. The error shown as DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. After rebooting, got another BSOD, and another, and another. Every 15 minutes or so. This on a brand new computer.So I figured it must have something to do with the card since that was the only thing I had changed about the computer. I decided to walk it backwards one step at a time. I didn't want to uninstall the whole thing and start all over. So I went to the driver in Device Manger and just disabled it, then rebooted. Hmm, no more BSOD! What happens if I re-enable the driver now. Will the BSOD come back? It did not. So it seems like disable/enable the driver solved the issue.In retrospect, I should have installed the card, turned on the computer, installed the driver, then reboot. Then, shut down the computer, hook up the drives, and turn the computer on. I did these two steps as one. I highly recommend that you take it one small step at a time. Easier to sleuth problems that way. Other than that, this card has worked perfectly.
Young Jun CHOI
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2023
At first, I got this card just for the 2 on-board M.2 slots, as they would provide a very clean interface to add some M.2 SSD blades I happened to have lying around. Then I realized that this card has a really neat feature called HyperDuo that combines a HDD with (most likely) the 2 M.2 SSDs, to give the best of both worlds; the capacity of a HDD, and the speed of SSDs. I've been using that feature on an old PC for a while to give it some new life.But as all good things must come to an end, that PC died. So I had to find a new home for this card and decided to give it a try on a 2019 Mac Pro, since this machine has an internal HDD (installed for mass storage) that could use a little speed boost. This is where it gets complicated. Although the product description says the card works on a Mac, it doesn't. At least not in my case on a 2019 Mac Pro. Once installed, the computer doesn't boot, only giving out indicator lights complaining about a problem with one of the PCIe cards, which could be troubleshooted only by removing this card. I also went as far as flashing this card with a UEFI ROM (provided by StarTech themselves) but to no avail; it just won't work on a 2019 Mac Pro. I guess the new Mac Pro works differently from the old 2006-2012 Mac Pros. So Startech, please make this point clear that this card works on "older" Macs only. If it is supposed to work on a 2019, please help me how to get it working.
Wes B
Reviewed in Canada on September 11, 2022
Quick and simple to install. I put this to work on my Asus Maximus Formula XI (Z390) motherboard in the lower PCIe x16 slot (which is only wired up for x4 anyway) to round off my storage with an extra M.2.I would add that before using something like this you will need to be careful in that your motherboard's PCIe configuration would need to properly support it. My board normally runs the lower x16 slot with only x2 mode, but can be toggled to x4 mode at the loss of a couple SATA ports - so you will also need to make sure you are not sacrificing needed connectivity on your own setup. For me, I just had to make sure the SATA drives I had connected were attached to any of the other 4 SATA ports that would remain active after the configuration change.
TM
Reviewed in Germany on August 5, 2022
not much to tell - works great with an old (2014) dell serverthis server had first 2 x SATA 7200 RPM disks (/dev/ada0 /dev/ada1)these disks replaced with Kingston DC500M 960GB SSD (/dev/ada0 /dev/ada1)this product was mounted with 2 x Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB (/dev/nvd0 /dev/nvd1)here is a summary of performance, a memory disk (/dev/md0) is also includedi run following commands (freebsd):diskinfo -it /dev/ada0 (for spin disk)diskinfo -it /dev/ada0 (for ssd)diskinfo -it /dev/nvd0diskinfo -it /dev/md0 7200 RPM SATA SSD NVME PCIE2 RAM 1600 MT/sSeek times msec msec msec msecFull stroke 20,660 0,026 0,022 0,005Half stroke 14,180 0,104 0,020 0,005Quarter stroke 11,117 0,110 0,015 0,005Short forward 6,268 0,106 0,020 0,005Short backward 3,222 0,111 0,020 0,005Seq outer 0,094 0,046 0,020 0,004Seq inner 0,078 0,051 0,019 0,004Transfer rates kbytes/sec kbytes/sec kbytes/sec kbytes/secoutside 131 529 270 142 2 817 677 6 310 470middle 112 910 259 906 2 830 684 6 544 804inside 66 444 270 841 2 827 558 6 381 653Asynchronous random reads IOPS IOPS IOPS IOPS4 kbytes 198 47 177 425 895 573 91532 kbytes 183 8 421 93 989 185 404128 kbytes 153 2 164 26 178 49 4771024 kbytes 273 3 231 6 512
Brian H.
Reviewed in Australia on January 2, 2021
I needed this to put an extra SATA3 port on my older Z77 motherboard along with adding an E-Sata external port (yes, E-Sata ahaha!) I have an external IcyBox HDD bank and needed to connect it a bit quicker than USB 3.1 would do i.e. 6Gbps SATA Vs 5Gbps USB. Anyway, had a few boot up issues until I worked out what I was doing wrong (my fault, not StarTech). It is now up and running reliably and with the silly 'jumper switches which I hate (very fiddly) I can decide if I want 2 more SATA ports for my HDDs OR if I want 2 external E-Sata connections OR one of each. It is important to know that you can only have TWO of the ports operating at once - any combination of SATA or E-Sata but only TWO. Once you understand and are happy with that it is a great device to have on your machine. IMPORTANTLY, this card has a PORT MULTIPLIER. This means that any one of the SATA or E-Sata ports can handle MULTIPLE HDDs. If you tried this with a normal port WITHOUT a port multiplier you would have issues. I now have FOUR HDDs working from just ONE of the E-Sata ports on this StarTech card. It really is a remarkable little card. More ports would be nice but it is all I needed at this point. I have found StarTech very good with support in the past for other devices - I just called them for some advice on setup and they were great. The quality is more than worth it so don't be tempted by similar things on the web which are much cheaper. StarTech engineer these things properly to last - no bad surprises. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Jeff
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2019
Superb card. Plug in and away you go. 8x port multiplyer (JBOD) on eSata ext ports. Fast 6gbs transfer speeds. No dropouts or disconnects. Now the bad news - DOES NOT WORK (YET) ON WINDOWS 10 1809.17763.379. If you are still on revision 316 or lower including builds 1803 it works fine. The fault appeared to be introduced in 1809.17763.348 and Startech support are aware and hopefully working on a fix. Microsoft, as per usual will take a bit longer as getting the required info to the right people is almost impossible.I tried several other cards but this appears to be the only one on the market that supports 8 external drives.So don't waste your time on any alternatives (other Startech models or Marvell branded cards (they all use similar ASM CHIPS/DRIVERS)) BECAUSE i'VE TRIED THEM. They will WORK with 5 drives although the Startech recognised 6?I switched to USB mode (connection) which works fine whilst waiting for the fix. Will update when this happens.
Kiteless
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2018
I have this low power Mini ITX mobo with 4 SATA ports on it. All of them are in use on the FreeNAS. I was using the suggested setup of mirrored USB drives. 2 little Sandisk Cruisers. After about a year one of them failed. I replaced it then a few months later the other one failed. I don't think they are bad devices, they just aren't rated for 24/7 use.Anyway I needed another solution. I had a single PCI-e slot to work with. I picked up some cheapo M.2 "controller" not realizing it needed SATA cables to work. Oops. So I did some more digging and found this. I didn't need the speed of NVMe. I mean this system was running off 2 USB sticks just fine. Given how cheap SATA controllers are I felt this was a little expensive. I mean I could get a 2 port PCIe SATA controller for like $12 USD. Anyway I've worked with StarTech stuff before and it's always seemed to be good quality. After some reading it looked like the controller chip on this would be happy to play with FreeNAS.I installed this 32GB Trancend SATA M.2 drive, installed the card in the machine and re-installed FreeNAS. Imported my 2 mirrored arrays, tweaked some settings, let it reboot like 6 times as I changed things and it did it's import process, make sure all my imported settings worked, then shut it down, installed the other M.2 drive, booted back up, setup the boot drive mirror and boom, perfection. No more USD drives hanging out of the back and it works great.Final thoughts. I think for the money, it's worth it. There are more expensive solutions out there but the instructions are great and it seems well made. I waited 4 months before I wrote this review. Card length is a consideration as well. My FreeNAS machine is in a Fractal Design Node 304. The case itself has room, But there are a lot of power supply and SATA cables running around in there. It was a little tight.Warning: Some BIOS's don't like to boot off PCIe devices. Try and do some research before buying this. If you happen to have a cheapo PCIe SATA controller laying around. Put a bootable drive on it, even a CD-ROM/DVD and see if it boots. Generally if you're in the BIOS and you can see it as a boot option, you're golden. All that said, if you're reading this review and considering buying one of these, you probably know what you're doing.Hope this was helpful.
Petitclaude
Reviewed in France on May 4, 2015
Reçue ce matin dans un petit carton habituel, dans sa boite d'origine re-scotchée.Manque le cordon Sata, çà commence mal !.Passons au montage et aux essais.En premier mise en place des cavaliers pour ports internes. Essai 1 sur le slot PCIe 1x V-1.0 c'est une catastrophe par rapport au Sata II (3gb/s)...Heureusement sur le slot PCIe 8x V-2.0 çà change tout et c'est presque l''apothéose, même le contrôleur Marvell 9128 dit Sata III (6gb/s) est battu par cette très bonne carte à base ASM 1601.Sur ma carte mère Gigabyte GAX58A-UD3R çà manquait cruellement un vrais contrôleur SATA III (6gb/s) pour gérer au mieux mon SSD VERTEX 4 comme il faut, et ne rien perdre de sa vitesse...C'est chose faite.Merci Amazon pour ce reconditionné à 50% et l'envoi rapide.
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