00:00So you finally maxed out every SATA port on your motherboard, and now you've got a stack of drives
00:04sitting on your desk doing absolutely nothing. Been there. I spent way too long digging through
00:11listings, comparing chipsets, and reading through thousands of reviews, and I've pulled together the
00:155 best PCIe expansion cards for SATA drives that people are actually buying right now.
00:20Let's get into it. First up is the M.2 NVMe 2.6 port SATA adapter running the ASM 1166
00:28chipset,
00:28and honestly this one's my favorite of the bunch. The big deal here is the chipset itself ASM 1166 is
00:35native, it doesn't use a port multiplier, so all 6 ports get full 6 gigabit bandwidth at the same time.
00:41That matters a lot if you're building a NAS or running a RAID array.
00:46It's flexible too, working in an M.2 slot or PCIe X4, X8, or X16. At around 20 bucks with
00:54over 4,800
00:55sold and a perfect 5-star rating, this is the one I'd grab if I wanted something I could set
01:00and
01:00forget. Next is the mining-style PCIe SATA card, and this thing is a bit of a monster.
01:06You can get it in 4, 6, 12, 16, or even 20 port configurations, which is honestly ridiculous in
01:13the best way. If you're running a big storage server, a media library, or you're literally mining
01:19and need a wall of drives, this is the cheapest path to a huge port count. It's about $16, over
01:254,300
01:26sold, sitting at 4.5 stars. Just know the high port count versions use port multipliers, so it's
01:33better for bulk storage than raw speed. Then we've got the 5-port SATA 3 card with the
01:39JMB585 chip, and this is the enthusiast pick. JMB585 is genuinely one of the best controllers you can
01:46get for this, it runs on PCIe 3.0 X2, which means way more bandwidth than the older X1 cards,
01:52and it
01:52plays really nicely with Truineas, Unraid, and Proxmox without any driver headaches. 5 native ports,
01:58no multipliers, no weirdness. It's about 2150 with nearly 3,800 sold and a 4.7 rating.
02:07If you care about your data, this is where I'd put my money. Now if you just need a couple
02:12more
02:12ports and don't want to overthink it, the Marvel 9125 2 port card is under $10. That's it.
02:20That's the pitch. It slots into a single PCIe X1 lane, which is great because those little slots
02:26are usually sitting empty anyway, and it gives you two full-speed 6GB SATA ports. Perfect for
02:32adding a backup drive or reviving an old machine that ran out of connectors.
02:36Almost 3,600 sold with a 4.8 rating, and at that price it's basically an impulse buy.
02:43And rounding it out, the 12, 16, or 20 ports SATA 3.0 card at just $7.10.
02:50This is the budget bulk option, plain and simple. If you're setting up a cold storage box,
02:56an archive server, or you just have a pile of old hard drives you want to consolidate somewhere,
03:00the cost per port here is unbeatable. Nothing else comes close.
03:06Over 3,200 sold with a 4.4 rating. Just set your expectations right, this is for capacity,
03:13not for speed critical work. All the links are down in the description if you want to check current
03:19prices, since these do fluctuate quite a bit. If this helped you figure out which card to grab,
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03:29Thanks for watching, and I'll catch you in the next one.
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