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weastlinks

weastlinks 4-Port SATA III RAID Expansion Card Marvell 88SE9230

SKU CH-N983-P392K

Adds four SATA III ports with RAID 0, 1, 10 and HyperDuo via a PCIe x4 slot

  • External USB ports4x SATA III
  • Product typePCI Express to SATA Card
  • Add four SATA III drives with a single x4 card
  • Transfer data at up to 6.0 Gbps per port
  • Protect data with RAID 0, 1 or 10 modes
  • Hot-plug drives without shutting down the system
  • Works in x4, x8 or x16 PCIe slots

Four-port SATA III RAID controller

The weastlinks card adds four internal SATA 6 Gb/s ports through a PCI Express x4 slot that also fits x8 and x16 slots. It uses the Marvell 88SE9230 chipset and supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10 with selectable stripe sizes of 32K and 64K. Drivers are built into Windows XP through 10, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, and Linux 2.6 or later.

Upgrade from onboard SATA or single-port cards

The jump is worth it when the motherboard lacks enough SATA 6 Gb/s connectors or when a single-port add-in card limits throughput. The PCI Express 2.0 x4 interface removes the bottleneck of older x1 or v1.0 slots, and the card maintains backward compatibility with SATA 3 Gb/s and 1.5 Gb/s drives. It does not support RAID across a port multiplier, so arrays must use the four native ports.

Sustained load behaviour

Under continuous transfers the controller maintains the negotiated link speed of 6.0 Gbps, 3.0 Gbps or 1.5 Gbps without thermal throttling because the card has no active cooling requirement. Native Command Queueing and port multiplier FIS-based switching keep command overhead low during mixed read and write workloads. Hot-plug and hot-swap allow drive replacement without shutting down the system.

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Specifications

Product
Product typePCI Express to SATA Card
Ports & slots
External USB ports4x SATA III

Questions about this item

Does the PCI-E x4 slot requirement mean I need a full-length x16 slot, or will a shorter x4 slot work?

The card uses a PCI-Express x4 interface and is compatible with x4, x8 and x16 slots, so a physical x4 slot is sufficient.

Which driver step is most often missed when installing the Marvell 88SE9230 controller on Windows 10?

After seating the card, install the Marvell RAID driver before creating any array; Windows AHCI driver alone will not expose the RAID BIOS.

If a drive in a RAID 1 mirror fails, what replacement drive specifications must match?

Replace with any SATA 6G, 3G or 1.5G drive of equal or larger capacity; the controller will rebuild the mirror automatically.

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