
- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality


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

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.




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

This HBA is super quick, been running for a few months now and runs my lab virtual machines with ease. I run this in a lab environment that I use for training (Exchange, ADFS, Lync, SQL) and it rocks. Connected to 8 15.7K Seagate SAS drives and couldn't be happier.


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.

works well - no issues


*12Gb SAS -- Insanely fast (was able to read ~7300 MB/s from a large SSD stripe V-Dev) *LSI so you know it runs flawlessly out of the box on Linux *It's not a RAID card, just a pure host bus adapter that doesn't get in the way *Absolutely perfect HBA for a ZFSonLinux box (probably works well on *BSD too) *Supports 24 direct connections to drives or passive/direct backplane, or up to 1024 drives through expanders

Compatible with Avago LSI 9270 (LSISAS2208) host controller upstream Compatible feeding a Chenbro CK23601 expander downstream Can input from a single SAS channel Can input from dual SAS channels Almost no heat generated Mounts in a PCIe 4X slot for power (power-only no signals) Can be power from a Molex 4-pin as well (my use) Arrays survived re-routing from Chenbro expander to this Intel expander OS version and host controller drivers should play no role in how well controller and expanders work together. This technology is 100% hardware and no software comes into play.




Works well. I bought both the main board and the card.
