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Works out-of-the-box with various Linux distros using 4.x kernel (currently Debian Stable) Works well with mdadm Simple settings Works well/reliably/as advertised

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

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.

Fast, Stable, Quick booting.

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

easy set up

This expander has been working solidly in my storage server for several months helping to server up iscsi to my esxi hosts. Note as other have mentioned this doesn't have any controller capabilities. The main reason I'm writing this review is I have an Areca 1880xi and I couldn't confirm it would work with this would work with my Raid card. I heard of people running into difficulties with some Areca cards and this expander especially if the have other expanders in the unit. In those cases their raid cards will not pick this expander up. That said, I have run into no issues. My raid card info: ARC-1880IX-12 Firmware/Bootrom version: V1.51 2012-07-04

- Easy setup for on older system with PCI-E slot. - Inexpensive. - Kit contains one SATA cable. - Instructions were satisfactory for my needs.

Works fine with Linux (Fedora 18, kernel 3.7.9) using a 6.0 Gbps disk (Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1). Command lspci shows this: SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 01) Message log confirms a connection at 6.0 Gbps. I am able to use this for a boot disk even with other disks plugged into the motherboard's SATA sockets. I don't have a SSD, so I can't report on that.

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

This card replaced three 8 disk SAS cards in my system. This card simply just works without any issue. I have been running it for about 8 months with 21 data disks and 3 parity disks in a FlexRAID configuration that recalculates parity every 24 hours. Given how dynamic some of my data is the parity recalculation cycles can be a couple hours long and this card is rock solid with that really heavy i/o.

Amazing value for money. I'm using this on the Asus P6T Deluxe v2 X58 motherboard with 4 Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.12 hard drives for general purpose storage and high definition video editing. The RAID 0 array was fairly simple to setup after stumbling around the RAID BIOS GUI. It has been running for 10 months+ without any problems at all. It adds exactly 14 seconds to boot time, which is not much. When SSD's eventually drop in price and increase in capacity, they are an obvious upgrade path as this card has incredible low latency to meet unique requirements of SSD's (with 6Gb/s interface support to boot). Nothing this inexpensive provides near the performance. (Benches: HD Tach v3.0.4.0 Average Sequential Read 426 MB/s, IO Meter 512kb Sequential Read 480 MB/s, IO Meter 512kb Sequential Write 468 MB/s)

This card does exactly what it is engineered to do. A Client of mine ordered this card (from newegg) for me to install. For an "entry level" product, it really kicks some serious b*tt! MUCH faster than Intel's built in "wannabe RAID" ICH10R and MILES ahead of Marvell's on-board SATA III solution---which doesn't work at all for RAID. It adds approx. 15 seconds to boot time, but that is to be expected . Having no onboard memory, this card doesn't get as hot as other cards (with onboard memory). I decided we didn't need the memory because we were using 4 X Crucial SATA 3 ( 6Gbps) SSD's (128GB X 4 C300 series). All four SSD's started drooling when they saw me unbox this card! You will NOT get the full performance from SATA 3 with the SATA bottleneck. A PCIe solution will allow SSD's to run at their full potential, even though TRIM is not supported. TRIM is not necessary with Garbage Collection and there are ways to TRIM the drives anyway