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  Component Quality "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-08 11:07 +0000
    Re: Component Quality Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-08 12:18 +0100
      Re: Component Quality "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-08 12:03 +0000

#60752 — Component Quality

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.

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#60753

Jeff Gaines wrote:

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

What gen of PCIe is your M/B ?

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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 :-)

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

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