
NO RAID Real HBA PCI Gen 3 Works awesome with Windows Storage Spaces

very reliable.

*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


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.




- Works out of the box on FreeBSD 11 - No issues with 4Kn drives

Works with my desktop motherboard. Worked right out of the box with little effort. Fast. Using ArgusMonitor benchmark it reads 26% (414 Mb/s vs 329Mb/s) faster, but writes 8% slower (381Mb/s vs. 416Mb/s) than the on-board Intel RAID controller in a 4x2TB RAID 0 array. I can expand to more drives later.

Works out-of-the-box with Ubuntu 11.10 Just plugged it in, plugged in a SAS cable from my SAS expander and boom, saw all the drives. Have gotten up to 650 MB/s write speeds. Haven't tested any higher yet.

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




I bought this to expand my FreeNAS box and it's worked perfectly. It comes with the low profile bracket as well and was as simple as power down, install, plug drives in and boot. Everything was found and had been working great.




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.