I had to plug in several times to get recognized under Windows 10. And after a little time it showed up in the FW program.
But you can do it under from your Linux. You just have to connect a HDD to the SATA port to upgrade it. You can swap the HDDs so each SATA port could be upgraded.
A little a discovery when you upgrade it under Windows: SATA2 and SATA4 ports not working