Will this board be useful in connecting a WD Internal SATA III 6GB HD or am I just wasting my time? My MBO is 2.0 and I have 1 PCIE slot available. Amazon told me that this card would work best with a SSD but I don't want that, I wish to use a SATA III Internal. Will this board be useful in connecting a WD Internal SATA III 6GB HD or am I just wasting my time? My MBO is 2.0 and I have 1 PCIE slot available. Amazon told me that this card would work best... » Read More Will this board be useful in connecting a WD Internal SATA III 6GB HD or am I just wasting my time? My MBO is 2.0 and I have 1 PCIE slot available. Amazon told me that this card would work best with a SSD but I don't want that, I wish to use a SATA III Internal. « Show Less
198835
hi, just to clarify, this board has 2 sata III connections which should work with any drive that is compatible with the sata standard. ssd or hdd even a bluray drive. make sure you have the black sata power connectors from power supply too.
198836
My MBO is also 2.0 so I bought this to connect SEGATE ST3000DM001 3TB SATA III 6GB. It works well and has good performance.
198837
Yes it will work. I am however not sure the SATA III will be the improvement in speed that you might be looking for that a SSD would offer.
198838
I'm using this board in an older HP workstation PC xw8200 and it works for me. I did buy it to use with a SSD drive but I would think it should work for you as well. I don't know if it will work with your MB or not. As I boot it does tell me I don't have enough memory, but it works just fine when I check the SSD settings.
198839
It all depends on your motherboard and there are many flavors of 2.0. I get SATA 1 speeds using this board in an old dell dimension 8400 (from 2003). I'm pretty sure it is MB limited.
816918
Yes, actually if you plan on over clocking and are limited to a mATX board, this is the best one out there for enthusiasts and regular users alike. Over clocks very well and Sata II is not a big deal, I'm running two SSDs in RAID 0 and don't see the sata II data caps yet!
1234776
the SATA port is required to plug into a empty mother board SATA plug for this card to work and come's with a burned disk with just a random 3.0 controller's this card is vary cheap ive been building custom PC's for about 12-14 years and i coundent even get it to work with esata or USB 3.0 i recommend this kind of setup with your rig but not this Generic Combo spend the money to buy a better one that runs out of the PCI express 1X its plenty fast so there's no reason to loss a mother board sata when your trying to expand your PC i Have 8 sata's and Esata im using all of them for my gaming rig & media server so i wasn't able to use this card
643208
Well..the card is capable but I think your real-world speeds are going to be limited by your motherboard/processor architecture. Bought this controller to replace a SATA I on an old Xeon-based machine that I use for a file server. Had replaced a couple of Seagate drives on my JBOD array with some shiny new WD Blues, and the old SATA I controller couldn't handle the new drives. This one works like a champ. Here's what I get for speed: $ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdb|grep -i speed * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s) * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s) * Gen3 signaling speed (6.0Gb/s) $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 956 MB in 2.00 seconds = 478.08 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 332 MB in 3.01 seconds = 110.19 MB/sec $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/shared/output.img bs=8k count=256k 262144+0 records in 262144+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 38.9774 s, 55.1 MB/s
2001512
Dear Martin: I don't see why the BP SSD would not work, since according to the review I just read, it is exactly what the BRIX-XM14's Storage Slot is designed to accommodate. I purchased mine for extra storage in my Lenovo Edge 530, where placing it in the slot for Mobile Broadband doubles as a SSD receptacle. Unfortunately, my SSD being placed in this secondary slot is only capable of SATA II processing speeds, where the theoretical maximum Read/Write speeds top out at about 3gb.sec. Placing it in your unit should allow this piece to function at the speeds it was originally designed to achieve, ie. 6gb/sec, which is as pleasant a speed as possible for the most part at this point in time.....I found my BP SSD function flawlessly, at least at the SATA II level. I regard this product as an excellent buy, especially at the prices that were available at the time I purchased mine.....I do hope this has answered your question.....
718315
Don't know because each PC has different motherboard and even if it has a mini SATA (msata) connector you'll need to find out if it will boot from that port. Seems like the newest PCs are much more likely to have an msata slot but even when it does, it may not be useable for installing and O.S. I got 2 of these SSDs and most of the PCs I tried it with won't boot from there so I couldn't load Windows and use the other drive for storage as I planned.
187875
All SATA versions are backwards-compatible. Though, if you're springing for a new MoBo, you might as well toss in a newer HDD, too. WD 1TB are going for about $60 as of this writing, and it is incredibly easy to set this board up in many different multiple-drive configurations. So, you can still use your old drive (as I assume you'll at least want/need to get data off of it), but you can have something significantly faster and more capacious as your main drive. Well worth considering.
362047
I do not think you mother board will support anything other than this one card.............not to mention that this is a large card and barely fits most cases......it is very long and interferes with the SATA port locations sometimes
1318415
I have 2 of these in an Asus M5A99FX Pro motherboard, they work perfectly. This card does not need a driver, it is a standard SATA card(no raid). I'm running Windows Server 2012 on the machine. Hope this helps. BTW - I have 8 2tb disks connected.
1313691
Yes, but I'd be more concerned about why your motherboard's SATA ports no longer work. This card connects through a slot on the motherboard, and if your motherboard has problems, there may be problems in connecting this card as well.
1944263
Use the Intel Raid Controller that is on your motherboard if you are going RAID 0, that's what I would do. I am using the card for an SSD which was perfect for my computer, big jump in performance. Not sure how it would work under RAID 0, seeing how I have never used it for that. Hope this helps.
894874
Hello fellow Transcend card user: First of all, I am not using my card in a RAID configuration. However, I do believe your assumption is correct. I have an ASUS MoBo and to access the installed RAID functionality of the MoBo, I have to attach the hard drives directly to a specific set of SATA III I/O ports. You may want to check your MoBo manual for such requirements. You may also want to pose this question to your Mobo manufacturer. Further, you may want to consider running your RAID configuration from a USB-3 and/or e-SATA external RAID enclosure. Hope this information can be of some help - Good luck.
587534
Hello, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to answer your question. That is not correct. The SSD like other internal drives is not operating system specific and will function in systems with SATA3 or SATA2 connections. What is operating system specific is the Acronis TruImage Cloning software included in the bundle package. New current version that is shipping is compatible with Windows 8/8.1. For any further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available Technician will assist you.Thank you for selecting Kingston as your upgrade partner. Hello, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to answer your question. That is not correct. The SSD like other internal drives is not operating system specific and will function in systems with SATA3 or SATA2 connections. What is operating system specific is the Acronis TruImage Cloning software included in the bundle package. New current version that is shipping is compatible with Windows 8/8.1. For any further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available Technician will assist you.Thank you for... » Read More Hello, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to answer your question. That is not correct. The SSD like other internal drives is not operating system specific and will function in systems with SATA3 or SATA2 connections. What is operating system specific is the Acronis TruImage Cloning software included in the bundle package. New current version that is shipping is compatible with Windows 8/8.1. For any further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available Technician will assist you.Thank you for selecting Kingston as your upgrade partner. « Show Less
1247909
This card is a Sata 2 expansion card. From what I know, Solid state drives..(SSD) use Sata 3 tech. I don't think this is what you are looking for, and if it was, the speeds are far slower and limited should you find a way to get an adapter and make it somehow work. etherdose@gmail.com
1944262
I would not buy this card, could not make it work and support is terrible. All most any external Raid will be faster than the Software raid on the motherboard. Plus if the board dies, you just move the card to anything that is working and you have your data back. If you have to move software raid to another MB and it is a different version or drivers, it can be an issue. So find a good card and you will have the best of both worlds. I do have some software raids in my office only to archive data to, not for working data. Hope this helps, Cheers
2257660
I'm using a "Crucial M500 M.2 2280 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT120M500SSD4 " that I caught on sale for $46 for boot and antivirus, with a 500GB ssd for pgms and a 1TB for snapshots and data. No problems with install from optical disk, no problems running Win7. Not any faster than a standard ssd. Consider what you will do when the M.2 ssd fails, do you have a back up replacement ready to go? Or will you revert to a standard ssd?
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I'm running it on a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mainboard. This week I attached a 250Gb EVO ssd to the IO Crest and the Samsung Magician software is reporting it as a SATA 3 (6Gb/s) interface. My drive benchmarks at 428 (sequential read), 57935 iops (random) and 402 (sequential write), 24716 iops (random), now well below the 540 / 520 max indicated. The drive has slightly better than 50% freespace.