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  • Component Quality

    From Jeff Gaines@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, August 08, 2026 11:07:00

    In January 2025 I bought 2 x MZHOU PCI Express X1 to 6-Port SATA 3.0
    Expansion Card? ASM1166 Controller for ?40 each. Today one of them appears
    to have failed, only recognised intermittently on boot. Swapped it for the other which still works fine.

    If I buy a SilverStone Technology ECS06, 6 Ports SATA Gen3 (6Gbps) for ?60 with the same chip will I get better quality, better reliability, higher
    speed WHY?

    The Silverstone needs a 4 lane slot against 1 lane for the MZHOU.

    What are the decent makes for components nowadays?

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists
    or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Jeff Gaines@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, August 08, 2026 12:03:59
    On 08/08/2026 in message <ndohijF6fcaU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
    wrote:

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    The Silverstone needs a 4 lane slot against 1 lane for the MZHOU.

    What gen of PCIe is your M/B ?

    3.0 - Asus Z170-K but my kit travels between boards :-)

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    We chose to do this not because it is easy but because we thought it would
    be easy.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)