

The LSI-9305 required no setup. Merely plug it in, connect the SAS cables to the backplane and poof, done. This card supports 3.0 and 6.0 gb/s hard drives and SSD's

- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality

Windows 10 home recognized it right away installed the drivers and it's been working great.


Works LSI Logic controllers just work better than anything else on the market. Perform great, and work reliably.





It worked with no fuss: shut down ubuntu, popped in the card, hooked up a drive, powered up and there it was in the drives app.

Very fast. Did I mention it is fast. My CPU is fast, but this allows my CPU to not do any RAID parity calculations. Also, this has 1 GB onboard cache which does help with some file transfers. I mainly need fast sequential reads/writes with large files. Supports PCIe 3.0 and backwards compatible, which is good because Sandy Bridge CPUs do not support PCIe 3.0 :-( Future proof as these support 12 Gb/sec or excess of 1.2 GB/s if you have PCIe 3.0. My HDDs are too slow to take advantage of the speed, but it has helped in the RAID 5 though. The SSDs on it are insane.

Sequential Read MB/s / Sequential Write MB/s Random Read IOPS / Random Write IOPS Before 274 / 251 25722 / 29035 After 406 / 349 52143 / 44506


Super fast M.2 X 3 using raid zero.


Fast. Inexpensive compared to similar offerings from the competition. Feature rich. Great graphical and command line interface. 24/7 technical support from LSI. Works flawlessly with ESXi 4.1 with a single-digit modification to the driver's accompanying XML file.


