ELUTENG PCI-E to SATA Adapter 4 Port PCIe Expansion Card 6Gbps SATA 3.0 Controller PCI Express Controller Card with Low Profile Bracket for Windows/ Linux

I had to buy external controller because the one on my mainboard started giving me errors. This little card just does its job flawlessly. Boot settings are done via physical switch - you can select ACPI, IDE or no-boot modes. Installs and boots Ubuntu in ACPI mode without any problems.The only one flaw I'm seeing is the length of its POST (it's a separate screen before mainboard POST). It adds several seconds to the boot process. Otherwise, it's great and BIOS correctly detects boot drives.

Plug and play. Using it with TrueNAS Scale in order to pass through a UHD (Blu-ray) drive to a VM. Seemingly you are unable to pass through a specific drive, only PCI or USB devices. So I got this to pass throug and it worked right away.Can't really comment on performance but it's working for my use (ripping my 4K discs to MKV) at the same speed as my old desktop bare metal.Build quality is fine. It's not going to fall apart in your hands. Questionable heatsink quality / mounting, but it's better than nothing.

I bought a new motherboard and after putting it on with ALL my peripherals I found out that a couple of sata ports didn't work. I really didn't want to go through the extra time to take everything off and ship it back just because of 2 sata ports, but I needed those ports. Adding this to the board not only gave me the 2 ports that I needed but and additional 2 ports. Sure save me a lot of time and it works fine.

I have this plugged in to a Z170 motherboard and it seems to work fine. At first my PC thought the drives were removable, but once I discovered the switch to turn off the bootable mode the drives showed up properly. The card runs cool even during extended writes. The only small disappointment I found is that this card is only PCIe 2.0, but what do you want for less that $10. It's only been 1 day so far, If the has any issues I will update this review.

I have a 10-yr. old PowerSpec {C, that only has 2 SATA connectors on the MB, and were both in use (1 HDD & 1 Optical Disc). I did have an open PCIE slot, so I bought this adapter, put it in the slot, bought a SATA cable, and connected it to my Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD, installed in an open area (with an adapter). The BIOS couldn't see it, so I cloned my C: drive to it with Samsung's Data Migration tool, then unplugged the old HDD SATA cable, and plugged it into the SSD. That made the PC boot from the SSD, and install drivers. After shutting it down again, I plugged my old HDD into this adapter, in the PCIE slot. After2 more boots (to install drivers), everything works. The PC is faster now, and I have gained a lot of disc space. Good stuff!! I also have it and the HDD partitioned now, so I can keep my data on the SSD, too, and use the old HDD for off-line work and extra storage.

I used this for a while, until I needed to upgrade to a 4-port card. While in use, it did everything expected of it. I still have it and will use it again when needed. Just remembered: The only issue I had was that it can't be used for a boot drive with Secure Boot turned on.

Performs fantastically with only one limitation that I have found. Some BIOS routines will not detect drives attached to this adapter in pre boot analysis. Consequently drives connected to this are not seen in the primary boot phase and select-able as a BIOS boot device. The use of a boot manager installed on a visible to the bios boot drive will successfully boot a windows OS from this device (No experience with LINUX although Linus is a great person).Have booted WinXP, Win 7, Win 10 and Win 11 from drives attached to this SATA adapter. Sorry won't try Win ME, Vista or 8.I recommend you buy 4 ports over 2 as ya never know if you will want a 3rd extra drive.

Speeds were equal or better than my MB ports.