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very reliable.

- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality

Host Bus Adapter card shipped in IT mode with firmware 20.00.02.00 All I had to do was update the firmware to 20.00.07.00 to use with FreeNAS version 11 The newer chipset runs on PCIe 3.0 which is supported on my X11SSM-F motherboard. Worth paying more for the genuine product, no chance of getting a knockoff card. ;-)

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

I needed more sata ports, and my motherboard only had 3. This allowed me to add 4 more ports, and thus 4 more hard drives. The card was recognized by windows 10, so I had no driver issues. The card worked so great that I ended up buying another card.

I am using this in an Asus x58 P6T deluxe V2 with an intel x5650. I have my Intel 180GB SSD on this sata3 card. Before I only had sata2 on the motherboard. For the price I figure what the heck. Well it works good, I was pleased with the speeds. Fast as the Intel specks like they should be using bench32 disk benchmark.

I thought that I had received the wrong drive. Acutally I had the wrong cable. And I should have known better. Once I got the correct cable, the boards work.

I don't know, I never used it. Oh-- It does actually LOOK really cool!

Okay, I know this is a somewhat dangerous experiment but I have this card running a RAID 5 array comprised of 7 WD RE4-GP recertified drives. That's 6 drives in RAID 5 with a hot spare for 9TBs of usable space. I have only had this running for a few weeks but so far I have no problems. LSI utilty for Windows server is great. Performance seems to be quite good as well with write speeds around 80-100mb/s and reads at around 120-130mb/s. So, for a low power controller with no onboard memory, it is doing a respectable job.