Syba SATA Host Bus Adapters - Whats the difference

Hardware HDD's & SSD's
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I was just about to re-order another 4 port SATA host bus adapter for one of my ubuntu 16.04 home servers, when I saw that there was another one on the same page for over twice the price.

I looked up both on the syba website:

Can anyone point out to me what the killer difference is between the two? As far as I can see they both provide 4 sata ports by connecting to a single PCI-e version 2.0 lane.

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the more expensive one has hot swap support meaning you can unplug and attach another drive without shutting down the computer

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That can't be it, the cheaper one apparently has that too:

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... or am I missing something.

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The controller is the same so they should be the same thing.

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