Ziyituod SATA Card, 6 Port with 6 SATA Cable, Non-Raid, 6 Gbps SATA Controller with Low Profile Bracket, Boot as System Disk, Support 6 SATA 3.0 Devices(ZYT-SA3006)

As you can see from the photos, I have an Asus Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard (Rev 1.01) (circa way too long ago). I run primarily in Linux but also dual boot into windows 10 (separate SSD, also 860 EVO) occasionally. For quite some time, the linux kernel developers left a workaround in place that allowed the Samsung 860 EVO SSDs to work with AMD SB950 chips sets (granted in a sort of crippled but workable state) BUT recently Samsung claimed to have solved the NCQ problem with AMD so the linux kernel devs pulled the workaround. Long story short, the kernel kept setting my SSD to read-only because the NCQ issue was not solved afterall! Well, after some research I found the chipset used on the Ziyituod SATA Card is 100% compatible. I installed it and it has worked GREAT! Note, there are some steps, if replacing as the bootable SATA for windows. You must FIRST install the windows drivers for the board BEFORE you install the board. THEN power down, install the board and attach the drives, boot into BIOS and in my case disable the onboard SATA but in your case you may be adding this simply for more SATA devices so no disable required. Power cycle and return to BIOS again so you can select the drive to boot from that is attached to this new card. Bam! You are booting from your drives through the new card like nothing ever changed! NOTE: there are 6 ports. There are three chips on this card. One is fanned out to the other two that are doing port replication. To get the correct combination that allowed my system to boot took some trial and error. You can see from the pics the two red SATA cables. Those are my bootable drives (Linux, Windows). The black SATA is to my bluray drive. Anyway, I had to work out which two ports were primary and allowed booting. It WOULD BE GREAT if Ziyituod would provide a tech sheet marking which of the ports are to be used if you plan to boot from the card. Other reviewers commented that virtual drives are created under Linux and I saw that as well when I had my SSDs not corrected to the two primary ports. Spit-balling here but I suspect those go away as you populate ports with drives. As for speed improvement, I booted into Windows 10 so I could run Samsung Magician. The Before/After photo says everything! (sorry for the terrible photo). It was some fun and in the end, my drives operate now at full speed and NO ERRORS! Both OS's boot and load applications way faster!! I could not be happier! This greatly extends the use of this 2012 machine until such time as I can pay off the house so that I can afford to build an updated PC with a Ryzen 9000000 Core Beast. Oh, and this card comes with when I do! I was not paid, refunded, or coerced into writing this review. I was motivated purely by how well this product works!

A lot of these SATA controller cards are rebrands of the same one. This was the cheapest I saw for what I wanted.I had trouble at first with this making my system freeze up every few seconds after the OS had loaded. I had to uninstall the card until it could be sorted out. Customer Service was very attentive and very quick to reply with suggestions. I try to keep my PC updated, but had an old BIOS on the mobo due to MSI Live Update not including BIOS in its updates. Windows 10 also just released a new build.After those updates and using the driver that Customer Support sent to me, I reinstalled the card and am happy to report that it works fine now. The system doesn't have any issues, my DVD burner is finally hooked up, and I have room for additional drives or other SATA hardware.A little computer info for anyone else that runs a similar system and maybe has the same problem I did.MSI Ryzen 5 1600, Corsair 16GB Ram (8GB x 2), MSI B350 Tomahawk Plus mobo, MSI RX580 Gaming X 8G, Windows 10. The card is installed in my PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot.The card did come with 6 cables, but they were too short for me to use. Also, my computer's color scheme is red so the blue didn't really match. A driver CD is included, as well as screws.I would buy from Ziyituod again.

I bought this because I didn't need a RAID controller, I just needed a HBA bus because unRAID is basically a JBOD array in some sense.This indeed works with unRAID and I use it in a Ryzen 3rd gen system, to extend more SATA ports. However, word of caution:This also comes with bonus SATA cables (blue). I decided, they are shorter and fits right for some HDDs closer to the card than others. I've realized after a few weeks, I had some issues getting one of my HDDs to get recognized (and it was connected to the card too) and it was making the BIOS hang up. Unable to go to the OS.After troubleshooting, I realized after swapping the blue SATA cables with some of my more reliable cables I had on hand, albeit too long for my needs, I was able to boot every time and my HDD (which is healthy) is recognized in the array again.The card works fine, but don't use the SATA cables. Just get your own variety that you can depend on.

I have an Asus Crosshair III Formula motherboard that has a pci-e 2.0 x 16 and I wanted something faster than 2.0 without paying for pci-e 3 or 4. It took a while to find a card that would work for me as I wanted a 6 port card that would use more than the typical 2 lanes used by the SATA 1X cards. This one worked great for me and is still working well a few months later. All I had to do is just follow the instructions. LolI would suggest the easier softer way of reformatting any hard drives as you need all your drives running on AHCI unless you want Windows 10 problems. However, with my ASUS board I just changed from SATA to AHCI in the BIOS and kept rebooting Windows 10 till the system fixed the problem (about 3 reboots).One thing not mentioned is that there are three blinking green LED's (one for each physical rows of ports. I do think that the board manufacturer should have the ports in a better layout like the other manufacturers.For the price it is an excellent deal when you're trying to avoid a new motherboard. Windows 10 already has the drivers for this card.