For desktop PCs on PCI Express port. Allows you to add 4 SATA ports (internal) to connect 1 to 4 SATA III devices independently.
Compatibility:
SATA 3 (backwards compatible with SATA 1 and 2).
Theoretical maximum throughput with SATA 3 hard drives is 600MB/s (6GB bandwidth).
Drivers included for: Windows 2000, XP32/64, Vista32/64, Seven, 8 and 10-11 32/64 - Linux Kernel 2.6.19 and above.
Features:
PCI Express 1x (PCIe 1.0) port - Will fit on a 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x or 16x PCIe port.
Compatible with SATA 3 (accepts SATA 1 and 2 drives, but the maximum throughput will then be 150MB/s and 300MB/s) respectively.
For hard drives or optical drives.
Maximum transfer speed of 600MB/second (6Gbp bandwidth).
Four independent SATA III ports.
Supports NCQ (32 commands/port).
Compatible with FIS port replicators ("port multiplier").
Compatible with 'port multiplier' devices.
Plug and play.
Card supplied with two brackets: high profile + low profile.
The 88SE9215 chipset does not support RAID cluster mounting (prefer version 9230 if you want to mount your drives in a RAID cluster).