MHQJRHPCI Express 3.0 (2-Port) Controller Card, PCIe to SATA III 6Gb/s Converter, Supports SSD and HDD, Includes Bracket and 2 SATA Cables

This product did exactly what i needed it to. For me, I needed more SATA ports to use an additional Hard Drive. My computer has 4 native SATA ports on the Motherboard, but it had 5 slots for hard drives, so I needed this SATA Controller to add 1 more additional SATA port to my Motherboard via PCIe. Worked like a dream.The box came with a screwdriver and screws so you can change out the back plate for the card incase you need the low profile one that is included in the box, a driver disc, and 2 SATA data cables.Personally, i had no need for the low profile back plate, nor did i even need to use the driver disc because it was working when i booted back up. I literally just shut down my computer, unplugged it, opened my computer case, connected the card to a PCIe slot (any will do), attached the included SATA data cable, and ran it thru to my 5th hard drive, closed her back up, plugged in my computer and booted it. the card recognized my HD immediately, and I was good to go.I only have 1 observation. This card does lack a heatsink, so it will run about 50°C+/- (122°+/-) which is OK, but too hot for my taste.If you do get this card, just make sure its not used in a computer located in a closet, or on the floor under a desk where air flow may be restricted.

I was a bit worried a cheap PCIe SATA card wouldn't work or it would give me trouble, but this thing went in no problem and was detected immediately by windows. The box came with all the important goodies and it seemed well packaged to Amazon Frustration Free standards. The PCIe Card was packed in an anti-static bag with a small driver CD, mini screwdriver, and mounting screws for the Low-profile bracket. Unlike some of the other cheap cards this one has a black PCB, which looks nice and not out of place in my case.I installed it in my Asus X570-E motherboard 1x slot and didn't have any problems booting.I installed the drivers from the CD and was able to connect to my DVD drive perfectly in Windows 10 (This is the ASM106X card btw) . I wouldn't necessary trust a cheap card like this with important data on an SDD or large hard drive but for an optical drive it works excellently.

Exactly as described. Worked well. Good value. Note it did not work properly with DVD - saw drive, saw drawer open/close, but never sensed disk inserted. Intel & Marvell SATA ports did. (Win7-32 OS)

I have now purchased two of these for use with desktop computers whose motherboard's SATA ports have died. I have not used either one for prolonged periods, but my basic initial testing indicated they work as expected. I'm grateful for this type of product that adds value through optionality to older computers with failing components.

The product works, but had to figure out a few things with no instructions. The driver is on cd, under sata folder. I hooked up two drives to the card and saw them in device manager but they did not show up in bios and were not listed as drives. I did not think to do a disk setup... (Search for create and format hard disk partitions), so instead I used the sata ports on the main board and moved the DVD burner drive to the card and it was picked up and worked right away. I imagine creating the volume with the disks attached to card probably would have worked had I tried it then. I think I need to renew my cert.

Installed two of these cards to run SATA HD's in LVM for file server. File transfers start out OK then begin to encounter IO errors. Reboot, repeat, same results. Moved drives and they tested fine on a different machine with sustained write speeds to completion of 30+ GB data. Put them back and connected to mobo SATA ports...everything worked great. Put HDs back on the PCIE adapter and immediately started getting IO errors again even without LVM involved.Either I got 2 bad cards or just not suitable with my mobo Asus Prime B450-Plus PCIE channels configured as LVM.

I actually tried to cancel my order for this since my original reason for buying it changed, but I was too late to cancel so I decided to just keep it for future work. Turned out to be a good decision since only 5 days after receiving it I noticed my DVD drive was not reading the disks anymore, or even showing up as a drive. I initially thought something was wrong with the drive so I swapped the drives in 2 systems and quickly figured out it was the motherboard, not the drive. I grabbed this off the shelf, installed it in my pc, connected the DVD drive to the SATA port and powered back up. The drive now shows as a device in the system and works flawlessly with anything I do. Will have to wait and see if my motherboard is going to fail in other ways, but that's a different story...

I needed two Sata 3 ports to add a pair of 5TB disks to my desktop computer. I only had one Sata port left in the computer. I wanted to mirror the drives. When I attached these 2 drives to the Sata ports, it couldn't handle it. I just had errors, right from the start (Windows 10 Disk Management mirroring). I already have a 10TB mirror in the computer. I salvaged the situation by moving my BlueRay/DVD/CD burner to this card. I then used the freed up internal SATA to create my mirror. It's a low cost, lower end Sata expansion card. I could have returned it and gotten a supposedly better card (3 to 4 times the cost). My solution works. I am happy with it in the current configuration and saved money. Its a good - low end Sata solution - so 3 stars. It would probably worked for my 5 TB drives if I didn't try to mirror them. Mirroring puts more stress on the SATA card and this is where the card failed.