SEDNA PCI Express (PCIe) SATA III (6G) SSD Adapter with 1 SATA III Port (with Built in Power Circuit, no Need SATA Power Connector, Best for Mac), SSD not Included

Put this card in my NUC9 Extreme which has 2 PCIe slots. I put a TeamGroup 4TB SSD in the PCIe card then inserted to the x16 slot. NUC booted fine, drive shows up in Disk Mgt, and I was able to format / Use the drive without issue. This PCI card requires no extyernal cables or power, so you essentially just plug in a drive and plun into the PCIe slot and you are ready!

I had to return the first one I received. However, the replacement has been a reliable product so far, and I have been using it for three years now. I use these in my servers so that I'm not taking up SAS drive bays (at-home, personal/lab servers). I currently have it running in an R610 that is running VMWare 6.7u3 (also ran it on VMWare 6.0 previously). I believe I did have to use community supported drivers for this, but was able to install it just fine. The BIOS does recognize it as a bootable drive, though I'm not using it as such (you can install/run VMWare on a flash drive, which the servers have internal SD Flash and a USB port). I use this drive to run the VM Guest OS drives, and use the RAID SAS drives for storage. Hope this helps for anyone thinking about installing it in a server.Expected Speeds:A lot of people are throwing around bad speed info, including the description. This card runs on PCIe v2 supports 5GT/s, which is NOT the same as 5Gb/s as mentioned in the description. PCIe v2 x1 has a maximum of 500MB/s = 4Gb/s. SATA III has a maximum of 6Gb/s (=750MB/s). These are theoretical maximums. Even if you could get that full speed, you are bottle-necked at the 500MB/s PCIe2 speed; which is about 2/3rds of the SATA speed, and you aren't going to get that speed. This is why folks are showing screenshots running at about 400MB/s (=3.2Gb/s, which is about what I would expect to get). If you want faster, find a PCIe v3 card where x1 has a max speed of 985MB/s (assuming your motherboard is able to do PCIe v3). Note, PCIe is backwards compatible, but the card does not speed up to match (this PCIe2 card will work in PCIe3 and PCIe4 slots, but will run at PCIe2 speeds). If you find a PCIe v3 card you can run, then you will probably see actual speeds of about 600MB/s (assuming your SSD supports those speeds).

Do not use this for an extra SATA boot drive - Most motherboards cannot recognize bootable drives off of this device, unfortunately. So only use this for storage applications, not boot applications.

Works as a boot disk on my 2012 Mac Pro. I have a Samsung 850 Evo which I also have on my 2012 non-Retina 15-Inch MacBook Pro. On my laptop my 850 Evo gets around 400 MBPs on Black Magic disk speed check but for some reason on my Mac Pro in one of the SATA slots, I only get 250 MBPs. This PCI card bumped my drive from 250 to 340 MBPs and freed up a slot for more storage. I don't know why my drives are slower on my Mac Pro than on my MacBook Pro from the same year but the disk speed tests show the proof. Ultimately this PCI card roughly gave me 50% more speed and freed up one of my drive bays for more scratch disk storage.*UPDATE* Since changing to this SSD I wasn't able to install Windows 10. Whenever I attempted to install Windows, whether I booted from EFI or BIOS, When I attempted to install Windows I received an error saying that it could not find the partition nor could one be created. I searched this error and discovered others who had it, but when I followed their troubleshooting steps, I was not able to get Windows 10 to install. I ended up moving my SSD back into one of the SATA ports on the Mac Pro, installing Windows + Boot Camp software and then moving the SSD back to this PCI card and it boots properly!

Works in a Dell Poweredge R430 server running TrueNAS Scale.Has Linux support, but (from what I've seen) can only be run when booting with BIOS. Can't be run with UEFI.

I've been in the IT Industry since 1993, so I'm often asked by others "can I re-purpose..x...y...z. for them" in my copious free time?Someone wanted to turn their HP6200 into a Linux-based NAS and max it out w/as many HDD's as it could hold.So I purchased the Sedna PCI Express (PCIe) SATA III for just that environment. The HP6200 has 4 SATA and 2xPCIe 1.0 slots. For experimentation purposes right out the box, I attached a PNY 240gb SSD to one of the Sedna PCIe cards... inserted it into the appropriate motherboard slot and powered up the HP6200.Immediately the HP6200 recognized the attached PCIe card and HDD prior to the F9 BIOS options menu appearing. Best of all, the Sedna PCIe can be configured for BOOT in BIOS. From here I allowed the PC to complete its boot into Linux Mint and using the DISKS util to mount the device, the new HDD was recognized immediately.Since this product doesn't require any additional drivers, I've recommended to my customer that their NAS build should be web-UI driven, so next I'll be experimenting this device for ease of use with XigmaNAS and OpenMedia Vault since it's sole purpose will be that of a NAS/Media Entertainment server.Great product... 5 stars for ease of use... and I'll be buying more.

When I received this card, I unpackaged it and secured a Crucial SSD onto the adapter. After plugging it into the slot and firing up the PC it wouldn't boot, AND the PC failed to see my other 4 installed drives installed drives. It couldn't get past this new card. Removing the SSD from the adapter allowed the PC to boot properly. I then installed the drivers for the card, shut down, and screwed a Samsung 850 SSD onto the card, connected the Crucial to the SATA port, rebooted, and both drives showed up in Windows Drive Manager.When it first refused to boot (with the Crucial SSD connected directly to the PCIe port I was ready to raise hell about the piece of junk that I was sold. After properly troubleshooting, though, I must say that this card works quite well - the only thing that seems to be negatively affected is the delay caused at boot while my BIOS recognizes this card - kind of "knocks out" my Fast Boot option. And - I may even be able to correct that. 4.78 stars...