
- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality



-- Connect up-to 16 drives -- Detected without issue in FreeNAS 9.10


low cost. amazing for non raid proformance increase.

Great Raid card that's extremely Quick (would be perfect for lots of SSD's) Easy to Setup

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.


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.

Super fast M.2 X 3 using raid zero.




Installed in a PCIe 2.0 x 1 slot on a 10 year old Lenovo MB, per CrystalDiskMark this card improved SSD sequential reads by 45% from 276 MB/s (SATA 2) to 402 MB/s. Sequential writes improved by 33% from 254 MB/s to 339 MB/s. Random reads/writes improved slightly by 16% and 6%, respectively. Easy to install. Win 10 bootable.



Great Raid card. This is not a high performance card, so if your expecting high perf and don't get it, don't complain, buy the card with 512MB of cache if you want high perf. This card is a great on board raid replacement. On board raids are not reliable majority of the time and are not true RAID but Virtual RAID. If you looking for something to take it's place and plan on running RAID 5 for Data storage, this card is great. I have it hooked up to 5 Samsung 2TB 7200 RPM drives and it has been rock solid for nearly 2 years. Write speeds average around 110/mbps going from my SSD to the RAID, this is what I would expect for a Raid card at this price range running RAID 5. I can't comment on SSD perf with this card as I have never done it, but I imagine with Average write speeds of 110/mbps with 7200RPM platter drives you can expect at least double that. Really happy I bought this card as it has never done me wrong in the 2 years I have owned it. The web driven UI is awesome and easy to manage. Setup was a breeze and I had no driver issues with Win 7 x64 or Win 8/8.1. I actually bought another one of these for my Hyper-v Host, Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, no issues there either, driver install was a breeze and raid setup/config was just as easy. If you looking for a Raid replacement for your poor virtual on board raid, this is the answer, buy it and be happy!


Amazing Shipping from Newegg. Card is Manufactured Jan 2015, not ancient like most on xBxy. Card works great too