StarTech.com SATA PCIe Card, 2 Port PCIe SATA Expansion Card, 6Gbps SATA, PCI Express to SATA Adapter, SATA RAID, PCIe to SATA Converter

This 2-port SATA III (6Gbps) controller with RAID enables you to add two SATA 6Gbps Hard Drives (HDDs) or Solid State Drives (SSDs) to your computer system or server via an available PCIe x2 card slot, and build the disks into a hardware RAID array. The card supports SATA III and PCI-Express 2.0 Specifications, and can also be used to add optical disk drives (ODD) like CD/DVD/Blu-ray to your computer. Versatile Hardware RAID Configurations This RAID controller supports different hardware RAID configurations to meet your specific application: RAID 0 (striped) - Splits your data evenly across both drives to increase read/write performance, while also increasing the size of your volume storage capacity to the combined total of both drives. RAID 1 (mirrored) - Exactly copies your data on both drives to provide data redundancy, so your data will be safely backed-up should one of the drives fail. SPAN (big) - Combines both drives into a single array to increase the size of your volum