SATA Card PCIE 3.0, 4 Port with 4 Cables, Controller Expansion Card with Low Profile Bracket, Non-Raid, Boot as System Disk, Support 4 SATA 3.0 Devices

Card installation was simple. Connected 2 drives to it and so far it works great. It was instantly working after rebooting the machine post install on my Linux mint box. No drivers were required to be installed on my setup. My motherboard only supports 2 SATA drives and I had other drives connected via USB as external but was causing issues so I decided to mount them as sata, this card worked well for this and has 4 ports, so I still have space to grow. All in all, it was a good buy.

I had an 8-port SATA 3.0 card. It came with drivers but didn't explain which version of the two sets of drives that came on the CD. Anyway, Windows 10 found some drivers for it and it worked for the most part. I still had an issue with the fact that all of the hard drives on this card showed up in Windows 10 as removable/portable drives, which was a pain. Each one could be ejected even though they were installed inside my PC. However, my motherboard as 10 sata ports on it and two sata controllers, which two ports on the second sata controller. Those two port also showed up as removable/portable drives, even though they are installed inside the PC. After a lot of searching on the internet for a solution, I finally found a registry mod that would allow those drives to be set to not show up as portable in Windows 10. That worked for the ports on the card, but the two ports on the motherboard didn't work. So, for those, I tried to update the BIOS in the computer. Unfortunately, after doing that, they computer would not longer boot up with the 8-port sata card installed. That lead to me getting two of these 4-port cards. My computer boots fine with these and I know have 8 extra sata drives installed in addition to the 10 sata drives on the motherboard (only 8 of these are hard drives, the other two are the boot SSD and a Blu-ray player). What I like about this one this that no driver is needed. I will install a third one today and stop using those two sata ports on the motherboard that result in the two drives showing up an portable, ejectable drives in Windows 10. For anyone having similar problems with Windows 10 Pro showing your sata drives as portable/ejectable drives, there is the solution I found on the internet: I had the same problem but only had one drive. I found this in another forum and decided to save it. If Kbird's solution does not work try navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\storahci\Parameters\Device in the registry. Once you are on the Device Key, In the right hand plane, right click and create a new Multi-String Value Name the new value TreatAsInternalPort Double click the new value to edit it. In the Value Data section, start with 0 then 1 2 3 depending on how many ports you have. The trick here is they must be numbered vertically. The value data section will look like this: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 The example will work for twelve ports. It is important that you add a separate line for each port. This what I 'm using on Windows 10 Pro version 1809. Also, this is a registry edit so DO NOT DO THIS if you are not comfortable doing registry edits as this kind of thing could potentially trash your computer. Backups should be made first. Obviously, someone with nearly 20 SATA devices is probably not going to be a computer rookie. :)

Rock-Solid SATA Expansion That Just Works This PCIe SATA expansion card is one of those upgrades that instantly makes a system feel more capable. I installed it in a mid-tower build that was running out of SATA ports, and it picked up my extra SSDs and HDDs without any fuss. The included cables and low-profile bracket were a nice touch—no need to buy extras or hunt around for the right fit. Performance has been steady. Drives are recognized immediately at boot, and transfer speeds are right where they should be for SATA 3.0. I’ve even tested it as a boot device with an SSD, and it worked flawlessly, which isn’t always the case with lower-end cards. The build quality is solid, and nothing about it feels cheap or flimsy. One thing to keep in mind is that while this is non-RAID (which is exactly what I wanted), it’s purely for adding ports—don’t expect fancy RAID management or enterprise-level features. Also, airflow in smaller cases might get tight with the extra cabling, so plan your layout. Bottom line: A reliable, straightforward way to expand SATA connectivity without headaches. For home builds or small office setups, it’s a plug-and-play solution that delivers exactly what it promises.

Easy install and worked 'Plug and Play' as a secondary card. Performance for single drive use is great (the PCIe 1x interface becomes a bottle neck when using multiple drives simultaneously). Had some compatibility issues trying to make this a boot device which I assume is down to my motherboard having onboard Marvel SATA & SAS controllers. - BIOS would recognize this card and its attached drives fine, and I could set the boot order of drives as expected ... BUT the boot order would be ignored unless I selected the bios's 'manual boot device selection' on every reboot. Eventually worked around this by forcing disable boot on all other internal drives. Have not reduced my rating because of this as I believe its more of an issue with my ASUS Motherboard/BIOS, than of this card. The -1 star is because when I boot from a drive connected to this controller, it shows in Windows 10 as an HDD not an SSD (so no TRIM available). I have a multi OS/Boot system, and what's strange is if I boot from Windows 10 on a drive not connected to this controller, then the drive's on this controller DO show as SSD and TRIM works! (Both same builds of Windows 10).

Very pleased with the SATA card as it works as expected!

Works perfectly out of the box. Started with a Windows 11 pc, then moved it to my Windows 10 home theater system. Nothing to install on either system. Also, 2 of the 4 cables have a 90 degree angle connector at one end. Very helpful in the smaller case in chose.

I was originally looking for a RAID controller as I've been building up a backup server/workstation solution for my apartment. but at the time I was still shopping around. In my search I ended up coming across this little SATA 4 port expansion card for a very reasonable price. Since then I eventually picked up some LSI RAID Controller card and attempted to install the thing but ended up hitting a brick wall due to it having issues with utilizing PCI slots that happen to be allocated for GPUs. So what to do instead? I remembered the little SATA card I'd purchased first and through that bad boy in this old case. Pros - Worked without any type of drivers or software. Instant success and access to my drives. Cons - The fact that its not a RAID Controller, but I knew that from the get-go. Sometimes I'm hesitant about buying from completely unknown companies I find on Amazon, however I know everything is manufactured overseas so its very common to find absolutely unknown brands from time to time and with this, I found a nice little gem. I may end up checking out their other products because I'm sure they'll probably fill some hidden niche need i may have expansion wise or didn't even know I needed yet! If your motherboard is lacking enough SATA ports and you're tired of adding external solutions? Definitely try to this SATA add on card solution.

The installation of this Ziyituod PCIe SATA Card, 4 Port was a breeze and worked plug and play. I love it that this included 4 SATA cables and it has a separate plate for the small form factor desktop box too. I have 5 hard drives and was plannning to add 2 backup drives and a DVD drive for burning DVDs. upon installation of the "mini" card and connecting the sata drives booted uo windows 10 and the system automatically detected and installed the drives. I tried transferring a 1TB data with the 7200rpm HDD and since it was transferring the PCI-E the transfer was utterly fast. I researched and PCIe provides a faster interface speed than SATA. An SSD connected via a PCIe 3.0 x16 interface can have a link speed of 16 Gb/s. In contrast the SATA 3.0 standard only provides 6.0 Gb/s so this makes life easier and conveneient yeah! Now I can enjoy my extra hard drives and backing uo my important files. Thank you Ziyituod for this amazing product!