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StarTech Startech.com 2 Slot Pci Express M.2 Sata Iii Controller Ngff Card Adapter

Model Number: PEX2M2

$79.33 USD
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This M.2 SSD controller card lets you install two M.2 SATA solid-state drives (SSD) into your PC through PCI Express. You can mount virtually any M.2 drive directly to the card, giving you a convenient and discreet way to improve your computer system performance. Plus, the card is a vital computer add-on if you need to recover data from an existing M.2 drive, or for expanding your overall internal storage. Leverage the speed and size of M.2 drives This M.2 controller card lets you take full advantage of the performance and size benefits of NGFF (Next Generation Form Factor) SSDs. M.2 drives are smaller than typical platter drives or mSATA-based SSDs, so you can install them in tighter areas within your computer case. By freeing up space within your computer, you'll also have more room for additional hardware upgrades. When you couple the card with an M.2 drive, you can give your computer's performance a noticeable speed boost, enabling you to replace your platter drive with a faster M.2 SATA III (6Gbps) solid-state drive. By installing your operating system on the M.2 drive, you'll have faster access to the files you commonly use, and you can continue to use your higher-capacity platter HDD for bulk storage. Rest assured, with simple and cost-effective data recovery Due to their performance and size advantages, M.2 drives are commonly used in laptops. If your laptop has failed but its M.2 drive is functional, then this card can help with data recovery. Once the M.2 drive is installed and the data recovery is complete, you can continue to use the drive for storage and backup purposes. Wide compatibility You can also rest assured that your M.2 SATA drives are compatible with the card. It supports the most common drive sizes, including 22110, 2280, 2260, 2242 and 2230. The M.2 controller provides additional installation flexibility with a dual-profile design that fits standard or low-profile cases, so it's the perfect solution for small form-factor or full-sized computers. Get up and running quickly This M.2 SSD controller card is easy to install, with native OS support and no additional drivers or software required. The PEX2M2 is backed by a StarTech.com 2-year warranty and free lifetime technical support. More from the Manufacturer 2 M.2Serial ATA - PCI Express 2.0 x2.

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Brad_S
Great Card for TrueNAS

I am using this card as part of my TrueNAS builds. TrueNAS recommends using hard drives not USB drives. This allows me to have a self-mirrored copy of the OS and other files. The only down side for TrueNAS is you cannot make the disk size smaller than the whole drive. :( I would recommend this card for those who do NOT want to use a SATA port.

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W B
Had an issue with the second port not being seen, so I returned it and went a different way.

I installed this unit with two WD M.2 SATA SSDs in an HP SFF desktop. Only 1 was visible to the system. Made note of the serial number, and swapped the SSDs and then the different serial was visible. StarTech support was quick to work through the troubleshooting process with me. They recommended a return which Amazon made fast and easy. I didn't have a way of adding power to the 4 pin floppy connector to see if that was the issue with my unit, but it said you don't have too. Instead of a replacement, I went with StarTech SATA to M.2 drive tray adapters, since I had spare headers on the motherboard and room in the case, and I could split the existing SATA power connector easily.

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RandomUser2221
It might be good if it doesn't crash the kernel

CentOS 8.4 (stock kernel: 4.18.0-305.3.1.el8) hates this card. Installed it after the OS was provisioned onto separate drives, so that I could use 2x M.2 SATA SSDs for bulk storage (860 EVO, brand new drives). Upon boot the kernel crashes due to ata driver issues. It never gets to the end of init 3 for login. Then I tried FreeBSD 13-release since this server is used for dual-booting; it recognizes the drives while running the installer and I can geom inspect them, however installation fails due to write errors. Usually Startech stuff is great with linux and FBSD, but in this case the SATA controller is completely unusable. [ 268.405258] PE[0fd] A/B: 8000802301000000 8000000f3ce40440 [ 268.405258] PE[0fd] A/B: 8000802301000000 8000000f3ce40440 [ 268.455938] EEH: Beginning: 'error_detected(permanent failure)' [ 268.455938] EEH: Beginning: 'error_detected(permanent failure)' [ 268.507314] PCI 0001:01:00.0#00fd: EEH: not actionable (1,1,1) [ 268.507314] PCI 0001:01:00.0#00fd: EEH: not actionable (1,1,1) [ 268.507315] EEH: Finished:'error_detected(permanent failure)' [ 268.507315] EEH: Finished:'error_detected(permanent failure)' [ 268.559030] WARNING: CPU: 80 PID: 876 at drivers/ata/libata-core.c:6679 ata_port_detach+0x8c/0x1f0 [libata] [ 268.559030] WARNING: CPU: 80 PID: 876 at drivers/ata/libata-core.c:6679 ata_port_detach+0x8c/0x1f0 [libata] [ 272.380818] Call Trace: [ 272.380818] Call Trace: [ 272.391670] [c000000ff33b7a70] [c0080000081d4fa4] ata_port_detach+0x7c/0x1f0 [libata] (unreliable) [ 272.391670] [c000000ff33b7a70] [c0080000081d4fa4] ata_port_detach+0x7c/0x1f0 [libata] (unreliable)

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Kiteless
Working flawlessly for my FreeNAS

I have this low power Mini ITX mobo with 4 SATA ports on it. All of them are in use on the FreeNAS. I was using the suggested setup of mirrored USB drives. 2 little Sandisk Cruisers. After about a year one of them failed. I replaced it then a few months later the other one failed. I don't think they are bad devices, they just aren't rated for 24/7 use. Anyway I needed another solution. I had a single PCI-e slot to work with. I picked up some cheapo M.2 "controller" not realizing it needed SATA cables to work. Oops. So I did some more digging and found this. I didn't need the speed of NVMe. I mean this system was running off 2 USB sticks just fine. Given how cheap SATA controllers are I felt this was a little expensive. I mean I could get a 2 port PCIe SATA controller for like $12 USD. Anyway I've worked with StarTech stuff before and it's always seemed to be good quality. After some reading it looked like the controller chip on this would be happy to play with FreeNAS. I installed this 32GB Trancend SATA M.2 drive, installed the card in the machine and re-installed FreeNAS. Imported my 2 mirrored arrays, tweaked some settings, let it reboot like 6 times as I changed things and it did it's import process, make sure all my imported settings worked, then shut it down, installed the other M.2 drive, booted back up, setup the boot drive mirror and boom, perfection. No more USD drives hanging out of the back and it works great. Final thoughts. I think for the money, it's worth it. There are more expensive solutions out there but the instructions are great and it seems well made. I waited 4 months before I wrote this review. Card length is a consideration as well. My FreeNAS machine is in a Fractal Design Node 304. The case itself has room, But there are a lot of power supply and SATA cables running around in there. It was a little tight. Warning: Some BIOS's don't like to boot off PCIe devices. Try and do some research before buying this. If you happen to have a cheapo PCIe SATA controller laying around. Put a bootable drive on it, even a CD-ROM/DVD and see if it boots. Generally if you're in the BIOS and you can see it as a boot option, you're golden. All that said, if you're reading this review and considering buying one of these, you probably know what you're doing. Hope this was helpful.

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Omar Siddique
PCIe, works on FreeBSD

This 2-port (B-key SATA) card worked out of the box in my FreeBSD 10.3 system (presumably Linux support is just as easy). No problems with running it in an old system's PCIe 2.0 x16 slot, despite the vendor website specs calling for PCIe 3.0. The BIOS identifies this card as Asmedia 106x, and FreeBSD sees it as a 12-port 6Gbps Port Multiplier (presumably it's the same chipset as the version with the SATA passthrough). FreeBSD dmesg output: kernel: ahci0: mem 0xf9ffe000-0xf9ffffff irq 28 at device 0.0 on pci1 kernel: ahci0: AHCI v1.31 with 12 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported Although the card has a 4-pin (floppy style) power connector, it seems to run fine without the extra juice. The manual indicates it can run on *either* PCIe bus power or external power. In my case, bus power seems to be enough. I'm currently running it with a pair of Crucial MX300 m.2 drives, no problems so far, though the PCIe 2 bus bottlenecks when both drives run flat out. Either drive can read at 450MB/s, but both together top out at 360MB/s each (I think the bus, could be the controller). It's likely the performance would be higher in a PCIe 3.x slot. I'll update if there's any unexpected performance or stability issues, but I wanted to review with the info that I was seeking before buying. Recommended (so far).

StarTech Startech.com 2 Slot Pci Express M.2 Sata Iii Controller Ngff Card Adapter
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StarTech Startech.com 2 Slot Pci Express M.2 Sata Iii Controller Ngff Card Adapter

$79.33 USD

This M.2 SSD controller card lets you install two M.2 SATA solid-state drives (SSD) into your PC through PCI Express. You can mount virtually any M.2 drive directly to the card, giving you a convenient and discreet way to improve your computer system performance. Plus, the card is a vital computer add-on if you need to recover data from an existing M.2 drive, or for expanding your overall internal storage. Leverage the speed and size of M.2 drives This M.2 controller card lets you take full advantage of the performance and size benefits of NGFF (Next Generation Form Factor) SSDs. M.2 drives are smaller than typical platter drives or mSATA-based SSDs, so you can install them in tighter areas within your computer case. By freeing up space within your computer, you'll also have more room for additional hardware upgrades. When you couple the card with an M.2 drive, you can give your computer's performance a noticeable speed boost, enabling you to replace your platter drive with a faster M.2 SATA III (6Gbps) solid-state drive. By installing your operating system on the M.2 drive, you'll have faster access to the files you commonly use, and you can continue to use your higher-capacity platter HDD for bulk storage. Rest assured, with simple and cost-effective data recovery Due to their performance and size advantages, M.2 drives are commonly used in laptops. If your laptop has failed but its M.2 drive is functional, then this card can help with data recovery. Once the M.2 drive is installed and the data recovery is complete, you can continue to use the drive for storage and backup purposes. Wide compatibility You can also rest assured that your M.2 SATA drives are compatible with the card. It supports the most common drive sizes, including 22110, 2280, 2260, 2242 and 2230. The M.2 controller provides additional installation flexibility with a dual-profile design that fits standard or low-profile cases, so it's the perfect solution for small form-factor or full-sized computers. Get up and running quickly This M.2 SSD controller card is easy to install, with native OS support and no additional drivers or software required. The PEX2M2 is backed by a StarTech.com 2-year warranty and free lifetime technical support. More from the Manufacturer 2 M.2Serial ATA - PCI Express 2.0 x2.

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