OWC offer SATA3 SSD PCIe Daughter Board
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NAMEk
57USD, not worth it. Max 15USD.
CrazY_Milojko
Enticles
if it was cheaper i'd consider one or two, i have multiple free PCI lanes and would love to get rid of some power / SATA cables that run to my 2 SSD's if i could help it 🙂
wouldn't pay in excess of $100 for them though.
boerenlater
fellix
Looks like they used a run of the mill multipurpose USB/SATA/PCI-E controller, slapped on a cheap PCB. Better save some extra cash and go for a true native SATA-6G with a new (or second hand) mobo. Those auxiliary controllers usually suck at write speeds anyway.
EspHack
what if you bought a pci-e ssd instead?
schmidtbag
Definitely not worth it. I bought a PCIe card with 2 SATA ports (with RAID support) for about $20 including shipping. I'm guessing its performance isn't up-to-par but it has so far been good enough.
Considering this card is marketed toward people who are looking to add a SATA3 SSD to a PC that currently does not support SATA3, it makes more sense to me to just simply get a PCIe SSD and skip SATA altogether.
Derragon
This is actually very frustrating from my perspective.
This product is only a PCI-E to SATA3 chipset with a 2.5" mounting system slapped onto it, with a little voltage regulator to supply power to the SSD. It's no different than your Asmedia add-in cards for JBOD/Fakeraid arrangements.
The best part is that they're actually using a chipset from one of their other products and have removed an eSATA port (you can see the differential pairs and power traces going to the edge of the mounting bracket).
Total cost? Less than $20 for the parts and assembly (in 1KUs, of course) is what I'll guess.
Sidenote: I bet you could solder an eSATA port to the exposed pads and it'd function fine, because I can almost guarantee they aren't putting the effort into producing their own controller IC, and so there'd be no differences in firmware.
Goose
No information as to it being bootable; No information as to what chipset it'll work with …
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