PCI-E to SATA3.0 Port Conversion Card

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards. It is the common motherboard interface for personal computers' graphics cards, hard drives, SSDs, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet hardware connections.

Serial ATA (SATA, abbreviated from Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded in the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard to become the predominant interface for storage devices.

The ASM1061, X1 PCI Express Gen2 to two-ports Serial ATA Controller, enables Serial ATA PHY up to 6Gbps high-speed interface, following Serial ATA Revision 3.0 Specification.

This board is a single-chip, PCI Express to 4 SATA Gen III 6Gb/s channels host controller that brings server-class features to the desktop.

This board enables the use of the industry’s newest and fastest hard drives at 6Gb/s while providing backward compatibility to legacy SATA 1.5Gb/s or 3Gb/s drives. It uses the same cable and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration. Besides, PCI Express 2.0 double the bandwidth of the existing PCI Express bus for faster data throughput. It will enhance system performance for every type of computer user. Each PCI-Express 2.0 lane provides up to 500MB/s of throughput. It also backward compatible with the previous generation of PCI Express 1.0 technology.