Expand your desktop PC with six high-speed SATA III 6 Gb/s ports using the AXAGON controller. The ASMedia ASM1166 chipset ensures reliable performance and supports Hot‑Plug, NCQ, TRIM, and Port Multiplier. Easy driverless installation on most OSes and a pair of standard and low profile brackets for universal mounting.
The AXAGON PCIe controller with the ASMedia ASM1166 chip adds 6 independent SATA III 6G ports to your PC for HDDs, SSDs, and optical drives. With SATA 3.0 support it reaches transfer speeds up to 6 Gb/s while maintaining backward compatibility with SATA 2.0 and SATA 1.0.
Installation is simple – on most systems it works without additional drivers. Support for AHCI, Hot‑Plug, NCQ, TRIM, and Port Multiplier (Command‑Based Switching) boosts storage performance and flexibility. A low profile bracket for compact cases is also included.
- 6x internal 7‑pin SATA for data connection
- PCI‑Express 3.0 interface, 2 lanes (x2), compatible with x4/x8/x16 slots
- Bus throughput up to 2 GB/s (PCIe 3.0 x2)
- Supports all drive capacities and SATA optical drives
- Plug & Play on Windows and Linux
Specifications
- Chipset
- ASMedia ASM1166
- Input interface
- PCI‑Express 3.0, compatible with PCIe 1.0a / 1.1 / 2.0 / 2.1
- Lane count
- PCIe x2 (compatible with x4 / x8 / x16 slots)
- Bus throughput
- Up to 2 GB/s (PCIe 3.0 x2)
- Output ports
- 6x internal SATA, SATA III 6G standard
- Connectors
- 6x 7‑pin SATA (data)
- Supported devices
- SATA I / II / III SSDs, HDDs, and optical drives, all capacities
- SATA compatibility
- SATA 3.0 (6 Gb/s), SATA 2.0 (3 Gb/s), SATA 1.0 (1.5 Gb/s)
- Mode
- AHCI rev. 1.4
- Features
- Hot‑Plug, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), TRIM, Port Multiplier (Command‑Based Switching)
- Installation
- Plug and Play, driverless on most OSes
- Supported OS
- Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / 11 and newer; Windows Server 2008 / 2012 / 2016 / 2019 / 2022 and newer (32/64‑bit); Linux with kernel 2.6.x and higher
- Mounting
- Standard and low profile bracket (SP / LP)
- Package contents
- PCIe SATA controller, low profile bracket, printed manual, packed in a cardboard box
