Ableconn PEX-SA130 2-Port eSATA III 6Gbps PCI Express Two Lanes Host Adapter Card - AHCI Port-Multiplier PCIe 2.0 x2 Controller Card - ASMedia ASM1062 Chipset

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Ableconn PEX-SA130 2-Port eSATA III 6Gbps PCI Express Two Lanes Host Adapter Card - AHCI...

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Pex-sat4r can be used with vmware esxi, using a third party driver set. Pcie passthrough virtual machine support.

Samsung evo 850 ssd 500gb. Mother board is a 2003 vintage aopen with a pentium 4 2. Gb. Test case hard drive is a samsung evo 850 drive. This one boots smoothly with a ssd + windows10.

The shape of the card is convenient for me because it does not obstruct airflow to the neighbouring gpu as much as some taller or longer cards. Fast performance and for the price it is very flexible as it can be seen by all os.

It stops short of being a 5-star product because there's no way to get the status of your raid without rebooting and sitting at a bios screen. This card is very good value for money and the data throughput is awesome.

Cons

This proves not to be effective and safe for my particular environment. Documentation is sparse. Techs are clueless about their own products.

The marvell chip that ableconn is using freezes up and can not be used with two or more solid state hard drives (ssd) it simply seizes to function until you unplug at least one of the ssd's from the sata port. This card crashes and freezes linux serve... Read More

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Quality

I wish i could have given 4 12 stars because that is really a minor problem in an otherwise excellent product

It uses the contemporary asmedia asm1062 chipset which works just fine with the uefi bios in my new asus motherboard

I would be willing to buy another ableconn product but i will not buy another asus product

1 my system wouldnt boot with the mediasonic hf2su3s2hd can asin b003x26vv4 powered on

Packaging/appearance

The most important thing to know you must let windows boot up before turning on the syba or you will have windows problems your... Read More

The ableconn pexsa130 card instantly pulled up the correct linux driver and worked right out of the box

Competitiveness

Shut down installed this card connected the two new 4tb drives powered up easy access to the new raid card during boot process

I have a evga x 79 classified k3 motherboard i am using this item as a port multiplier for a syba syenc50104 4 bay 3

Had previously been using a startech esata controller card that provides a port multiplier

Overview

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port and fine.

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This product had a total of 200 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 10 2022.