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.
NO RAID Real HBA PCI Gen 3 Works awesome with Windows Storage Spaces
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
Fast. Copying from my old computer to this one across gigabit ethernet uses well over half the available bandwith. The write speed is just so much better than the on board Intel raid. For another 250, you can add another 15 or 20 drives if you have that need, search for "intel raid expander." And did I say fast. Good tech support.
I added this interface to a Proxmox VM system to add SSD drives to a virtual NAS machine. Proxmox easily identified the controller and I was able to pass thru the SSD's to the NAS.
Windows 10 home recognized it right away installed the drivers and it's been working great.
It works as advertised. Very easy to install and set-up.
Great Raid card that's extremely Quick (would be perfect for lots of SSD's) Easy to Setup
- Works out of the box on FreeBSD 11 - No issues with 4Kn drives