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Green printed circuit board with four black SATA ports and a silver metal bracket

SMUGDESK

SMUGDESK 4-Port PCI to SATA 3.0 Expansion Card Silicon Image 3114 Hardware RAID 0/1/10

SKU CH-TAYT-GK78Y

Adds four SATA 3.0 ports via PCI with Silicon Image 3114 hardware RAID 0/1/10 support for legacy systems

Model number 3114 4 SATA ports

  • Adds four SATA 3.0 ports with Silicon Image 3114 chip
  • Hardware RAID 0/1/10 for speed or data protection
  • Standard PCI slot fits older motherboards and legacy servers
  • Backward compatible with SATA 1.0 and 2.0 drives
  • Compact board with metal bracket for stable 24-hour operation

PCI SATA 3.0 expansion card with SI3114

This SMUGDESK controller adds four internal SATA 3.0 ports through a standard PCI slot, using the Silicon Image 3114 chip. It targets owners of older desktop motherboards, industrial control hosts or entry-level servers that lack enough onboard SATA connections. Each port accepts 2.5-inch SSDs, 3.5-inch mechanical drives or optical drives, and the card supports the full SATA 3.0 bandwidth for those devices. Hardware RAID 0, 1 and 10 modes are managed on the card itself.

Suits legacy PCI systems needing RAID

The card is built for systems that still have a free PCI slot and require hardware RAID without a modern PCIe RAID controller. It works with Windows after driver installation and maintains backward compatibility with SATA 2.0 and 1.0 drives. Buyers whose motherboards only provide PCIe slots cannot install this card because it uses the traditional PCI bus interface. Those who need more than four SATA ports or software-only RAID solutions should consider other options.

Four-port SATA 3.0 via PCI bus

The single specification that decides fit is the PCI interface combined with four SATA 3.0 connectors driven by the SI3114 chip. If the host system has an available PCI slot and needs up to four SATA drives with hardware RAID 0, 1 or 10, this card matches that requirement. Without a PCI slot the card cannot be used, regardless of drive count or RAID needs.

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Questions about this item

Does this card need a standard PCI slot or a PCI Express slot to mount?

It installs in a standard PCI slot on the motherboard, not PCI Express.

After inserting the card, what driver step is required before the RAID BIOS detects the drives?

Install the Silicon Image 3114 driver in Windows, then enter the RAID BIOS on boot to create the array.

If a drive in a RAID 1 mirror fails, what matching specification must the replacement drive meet?

Use any SATA 3.0, 2.0 or 1.0 hard disk or SSD of equal or larger capacity.

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