I have used this card for a couple years.
Pros:
- five m.2 sata slots
- single slot pcie, and short / not extending past top of slot
- incredibly cheap
- mine has been reliable
- no extra power needed
- no pcie bifurcation or other special motherboard features required (works in anything)
- the individual drives do show up as individual drives in Debian for me and can be accessed separately (not a hardware raid card)
Cons:
- pcie 3.0x2 speed in an x16 slot (2GBps)
- doesn’t support m.2 pci
- doesn’t support booting from the installed drives
If all you’re looking for is cheap, quiet, storage, and you don’t mind losing out on total read/write speeds, thisll actually do great just about anywhere.










Likely more accurate to say ‘know the future’ instead of ‘predict the future’, but the intent is the same. He doesn’t share what will happen, only what will likely happen.