SATA SIIG SC-SA0M11-S1 PCI-Express 2.0 Low Profile Ready SATA III (6.0Gb/s) 2-Port Controller Card

[Alex]

SIIG SC-SA0M11-S1 PCI-Express 2.0 Low Profile Ready SATA III (6.0Gb/s) 2-Port Controller Card

 

(my personal favorite inexpensive PCI-Express eSATA card)

 

 

Specifications:

• Speed: SATA 3 (6.0Gbit/s)
• Ports: 2 x eSATA
• Slot: PCI-Express x1 2.0 (~4 Gbit/s x 2)
• Chipset: ASM1061

  

Overall

• Supports Identify: Yes
• Supports SMART: Yes

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AHCI Driver

• Firmware: 0.95 AHCI Mode
  • AHCI compatible: Yes (works out of the box with the default Windows AHCI driver) *
• Driver: 6.2.9200.16548 (6/21/2006)
  • storahci.sys

* Port multiplier support requires Asmedia driver.

 

StableBit Scanner - Direct I/O

• Methods: AtaPassThrough

   

• Identify: Yes
• SDD: Yes

   

• SMART Status: Yes
• SMART Attributes: Yes
• SMART Thresholds: Yes
• SMART Error Log: Yes

   

• Power Mode: Yes

StableBit Scanner - WMI

• SMART Status: Yes
• SMART Attributes: Yes
• SMART Thresholds: Yes
• SMART Error Log: No

Tested on Windows 8 64-bit.

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Asmedia Driver

• Firmware: 0.95 AHCI Mode
  • AHCI compatible: Yes (works out of the box with the default Windows AHCI driver) *
• Driver: 1.3.4.0 (1/5/2012)
  • asahxp64.sys
  • Link: http://www.siig.com/download/search/?keyword=SC-SA0M11-S1

* Port multiplier support requires Asmedia driver.

 

StableBit Scanner - Direct I/O

• Methods: AtaPassThrough

   

• Identify: Yes
• SDD: Yes

   

• SMART Status: Yes
• SMART Attributes: Yes
• SMART Thresholds: Yes
• SMART Error Log: Yes

   

• Power Mode: Yes

StableBit Scanner - WMI

• SMART Status: Yes
• SMART Attributes: Yes
• SMART Thresholds: Yes
• SMART Error Log: No

Tested on Windows 8 64-bit.

[4Frame]

Would you still recommend this card for use?

 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

I'm pretty certain that the answer is yes.

[4Frame]

Thanks Chris. You are helping me achieve my goal of a perfect storage setup day by day. 

BTW, saw an episode of home server show on youtube and you were on it. Awesome job on that! : )


 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

You are very welcome. I know that Alex uses a number of these controllers, actually.

 

And I'm glad that you could catch one of the shows that I've appeared on.

[lottathought]

I gave this card a hard look. What kept me from getting it is that it, according to the site specs, it can only function as a port multiplier for up to 7 drives total.

 

That means that I could not even attach 2 4-drive enclosures and expect it to work.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

I think this is a .... misprint, really.

 

We've had one customer recently reporting that they used this chipset (the ASMedia ASM1061) with an 8 bay enclosure without issues (it was a "DataOPTIC" card specifically, IIRC). 

 

However, I absolutely understand not wanting to chance it.

And if that is the case, then a HighPoint RocketRAID card (not Rocket, it has to be RocketRAID, even if you don't use the "RAID" part) will work for this.