
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


low cost. amazing for non raid proformance increase.


easy set up


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

Super fast file transfer Recognized all of my 24 WD 12TB HDDs upon drivers install without any issues. Comes in IT mode firmware preinstalled so great right out of the box. Extremely well constructed.

Easy to setup, heavy, well finished heatsink. Plugged in drives and worked as advertised. Speeds as expected for NVMe drives

This has done well with the speeds and performance. I am currently using this to run a Minecraft server and so far, so good.



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!


Well, after having this card for 6 months I can understand now what is all this noise abour "hardware RAID". This card is running great with 4 Hitachi's 7K3000 3Tb drives in RAID5. Very fast, reliable and most important it's great at protecting your data. RAID5 combined with "patrol read" gives me great deal of confidence (but please don;t forget about backups). It spins drives down when not in use, if there is a failure it will send an email in addition to audible alarm.