lepa71

I'm wondering if this will work in my setup. I have windows server 2016 essentials running on older Asus P8H67-M EVO motherboard. It has 2 SataI3 and 4 Sata2 ports. I use sata 3 for boot drive and have 3 Sata3 drives connected to 3 out 4 Sata 2 port. Then I use MS storage for raid 5 for those 3 drives. I got my self IO CREST 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 3.0 x1 Expansion Card Non-Raid with Low Profile Bracket ASMedia 1064 SI-PEX40156 card. My MB has Slot 1 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slot 2 PCI Express x1 Slot 3 PCI Slot 4 PCI Express x4 in a x16 size I believe all those are PCI Express 2.0 Do you think using your setup would work better than just the card? My drives are physical enterprise Hitachi 4TB drives(3x4tb drives in RAID5 = 8TB storage). Not really planning to upgrade to ssd at those sizes any time soon. I'm just trying to increase the throughput. Or maybe it is time to upgrade the whole setup with a more modern MB and CPU. I'm primarily using WSE 2016 as a clients backups. Thanks in advanced.