Experience with Exar 17V358 chipset (PCIe to 8 X RS232)?

[Blokk]

Hello,

I am looking for a 8 port RS232 solution for a desktop PC. Anyone used LabVIEW with the following product? http://www.delock.com/produkte/G_89336/merkmale.html

Its doc says it has a "Exar 17V358" chipset, I wonder if this is a reliable model? I remember some forum posts saying usually the "FTDI" chipset is a safe choice, but those are the USB-to-RS232 adapters. I guess this PCIe adapter should be a safer choice compared to USB adaptors? I will need to control several external devices (MKS PR4000B units) and read values from some vacuum sensors. 

[Blokk]

Hmm, it looks like the Delock one does not (officially) support Win10, so I will try another product, either two cards with 4 ports each, or a 8 port version:

https://www.startech.com/eu/Cards-Adapters/Serial-Cards-Adapters/4-Port-Native-PCI-Express-RS232-Ser...

[rolfk]

I haven't used these specific PCI cards myself (we usually used the external network to RS-232 servers from Moxa for large amounts of serial ports) but have good experiences with the Moxa products.

http://www.moxa.com/product/Multiport_Serial_Boards.htm

[Blokk]

Thanks for the link! Actually I am still searching, because I try to find a product with good price /port numbers ratio, but also which has proper Windows 10 driver support (for another reason, I cannot use Win7 unfortunately 😞 ).

edit: this Moxa website also only states drivers up to Win7...maybe I can contact them whether these products work under Win10?