Ich hatte den Controller bestückt mit 4 M.2 SSDs unter Linux in meinem Rechner. Nach drei Monaten hat die Karte plötzlich eine der SSDs nicht mehr erkannt. Weder Reboot, noch Austausch der SSD hat geholfen. OK, kann passieren. Also habe ich Ersatz bestellt und es lief erst mal wieder. Nach weiteren drei Monaten dasselbe Spiel.Aus meiner Sicht auf gar keinen Fall verwenden!

***Be aware that the disk sticks are SATA M.2 type (not NVMe/PCIe-based). If you're not sure, use Silicon Power A55 sticks.***Card works in Intel and AMD systems, and throughput is good, but docked a star because the controller only uses x2 PCIe 3.0 lanes. As such, the bandwidth is saturated at 4 drives, not 5. I can get ~1500-1700MB/sec sequential out of it with linux RAID.If you bought WD SA510's and you're having problems with this card, it's because of the WD disks, NOT the card. The SA510's are hot garbage and have tons of issues, even with a firmware update. As mentioned, Silicon Power A55's work perfectly.

Der integrierte Lüfter ist wirklich sehr unangenehm, selbst in einem anderen Raum, ist aber durch die Steckverbindung schnell deaktiviert und bei entsprechendem Luftstrom über der Karte auch nicht notwendig für SSDs mit geringerer Hitzeentwicklung. Ich habe ein paar Crucial P1 im Einsatz und hatte in den letzten 6 Monaten nie Probleme mit Überhitzung oder langsamer Übertragungsraten. Ansonsten war noch auffällig, das absolut nichts auffällig war. Keine Ausfälle und keine Probleme mit BIOS oder Linux Treiber.Wer dieses Nischenprodukt benötigt, dem kann ich es empfehlen.

Works flawlessly. Installed on a Pro WS X570-ACE and Windows 11 build on 1st Jan 2022. Populated with four 2 TB 660p drives. Worked without any tinkering or settings.I haven't used the RAID function but the drives are working fine, individually

I purchased two of these boards. Each board has the option for two M.2 drives. They provide amazing performance on my older i7 board which only has PCIe 2.0a support. My previous M.2 board did not have the onboard chip which is apparently a PCIe lane "switch" which basically allows more use of the slot bus. The M.2 cards I installed are PCIe 3.0 x4 cards so on my old card this would translate to PCIe 2.0 x4 since the motherboard did not support PCIe 3.0. Due to the fact that each PCIe 3.0 "lane" is twice the speed of a PCIe 2.0 lane I would not get half the performance. The onboard "switch" processor allows use of more lanes and allows near PCIe 3.0 performance. Keep in mind that having two M.2's on one card mean they still share the slot bandwidth.Windows does not support booting from software created striped volumes and the cards don't have a RAID chip on them to create hardware RAID. Actually, I wish this card did support hardware RAID such as striped volumes, it would be a great feature.What I did is purchase two cards and placed four M.2's on them. I placed my C drive on one (Windows). Then I placed a smaller cheaper M.2 on the second card as extra storage because due to the PCIe "lane switching" placing only one M.2 on the card will cause lockups and system freezes. In slot two on both cards I place high speed 1TB M.2's and created a striped volume. Placing them on separate cards allow them to utilize separate "switch" processors to ensure maximum performance. Then I reinstalled Windows and interrupted the installation to set the Users and Program folders to my striped volume. Then on my first login, I moved the page file to my striped volume. Now I have maximum performance out of my two M.2's with a total 2 TB on the striped volume.Thus far the setup works great HDD access is amazingly fast and probably faster than anything the creators of this motherboard expected. Also, I created a large 50-100 GB swap file because the drive is really fast so paging does not provide a noticeable slow down and effectively gives me all the memory space I need. I typically just leave everything open and running allowing me to quickly return to things.Overall, if you are looking for the maximum performance out of your PCIe 3.0 M.2's this is THE card for you.Pros:- On a PCIe 2.0 system this is likely the fastest way to add an M.2 HDD- Allows extreme performance even on a PCIe 3.0 slot.- PCIe lane Switch processor allows nearly full use of the slot- M.2 Cooling features like thermal pads heat spreader and fan.- Allows two (or more) M.2's in one slot (a lot of other cheaper cards have one M.2 one slot)Cons:- Does not have hardware RAID, I realize this may require a different processor, but it is a big feature.- Requires both M.2 slots to be populated due the PCIe lane switching.- While the SATA hard drive interface comes on the motherboard this requires the purchase of a 200 dollar card.

Installed this in a Mac Pro 5,1 with western digital M.2 SATA drives and it works fine. All drives were seen in Disk Utility and could be formatted. The fan is a little on the whiney side so I have since disconnected this as the card is getting airflow from the case fan anyway. Would recommend to anyone with a classic Mac Pro that needs faster storage than the SATA ports on the motherboard. Not as fast as NVME but a great way to increase the amount of faster storage in your Mac Pro.

Funktioniert bestens im Mac Pro (Mitte-2010) - MacPro5,1.Bedauere nur, dass ich die Karte als Möglichkeit für den Ausbau des Macs so spät entdeckt habe.

Leider macht der extrem laute Lüfter diese Karte für mich unbrauchbar

It's worth and I was lucky because I bought it for cheap when price was down speed was from (1500MB on x4) slots until (2700MB on x16)