Customer reviews of the StarTech.com PCI-E x2 controller card (4 SATA III ports) with HyperDuo function

113€⁹⁵

Global rating

8/10

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• by philippe C

  Posted on 24 Oct 2022

  Product bought from LDLC on 11 Mar 2021

  Number of reviews: 12 Average rating: 10
  Very satisfied

  Purchased in duplicate several months apart, 1 in March 2021 (24 10 2022). Both cards were mounted in the same machine without any problem. I archive on 12 hard drives. I make copies and transfers with very satisfactory speeds of around 100 MB/s. To date, I have not had any file loss. So yes, I am very satisfied with the product and LDLC for the commercial part.

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• by Stéphane

  Posted on 2 Apr 2022

  Product bought from LDLC on 25 Aug 2021

  Number of reviews: 2 Average rating: 1
  Caution

  1. Cause of data loss
  Installation (under windows 11) with 1 disk: ok (average performance but acceptable).
  Adding a second and third disk: ok ... until I start writing to one of the disks -> all 3 are then corrupted.
  
  2. Archaic update system
  Archaic upgrade procedure unacceptable in 2022: a whole bootable key thing to do with a non-provided tool -> a trick thought up by last century technicians who never heard of user experience ....

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• by Thomas S

  Posted on 9 Feb 2021

  Product bought from LDLC on 30 Dec 2020

  Number of reviews: 5 Average rating: 6
  Works on Ubuntu 20.04, but it is very very slow.

  I bought this card to set up a RAID 1 under Ubuntu 20.04 with 2 Seagate BarraCuda 8Tb HDD (ST8000DM004).
  To configure the card, it is indicated to press ctrl + M, but it is for a QWERTY keyboard, for an AZERTY one, you have to press ctrl + ?.
  Ubuntu recognises the hard drive perfectly like any other. I was able to install it without any problem except that the performance is mediocre. When the PC does nothing, Munin indicates a latency of 80ms. And a simple apt upgrade can take tens of minutes. As a result, I only use it to store backup files. It's impossible to run an OS, a VM or an application, it's much too slow. I rollback to my RAID 1 Mdadm and its average latency is under 1ms.

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• by Alexis L

  Posted on 17 Dec 2020

  Product bought from LDLC on 15 Dec 2017

  Number of reviews: 1 Average rating: 10
  Handles RAIDs of disks larger than 3Gb

  Allows you to bypass the limitation of Intel RAID controllers built into older motherboards for HDDs larger than 3Gb.
  My server under WHS was able to reboot even though it was impossible to install directly on the motherboard RAID controller.

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• by Gerard N

  Posted on 4 Jan 2019

  Product bought from LDLC on 24 Nov 2018

  Number of reviews: 12 Average rating: 9
  As described

  I ordered it at the end of November and received it on time as I often do with LDLC, I am very satisfied with it so far.
  
  I have configured 2 ports in HyperDuo (1 SSD + 1 HDD) and for the moment everything is working properly and the performance is seriously improved.
  
  No RAID configured as it is managed by the motherboard.
  
  Conclusion: I recommend

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• by Henry L

  Posted on 9 Feb 2018

  Product bought from LDLC on 28 Jan 2018

  Number of reviews: 2 Average rating: 10
  Difficult to set up under Linux

  I wanted to upgrade my server by adding 4 disks, as my 6 SATA slots on the motherboard were already occupied.
  
  Nevertheless preferring a software raid (Raid 5 in this case what the card does not propose) I suffered a lot for LINUX to recognize my disks (I am under a PROXMOX in 4.13.13) and found the solution on
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/805008/errors-showing-while-booting-16-04-amd-vi-event-logged-io-page-fault
  
  My raid is now being built :)

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