

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


*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



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


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.




Relatively easy installation, I am able to run this card either from my UEFI/BIOS or GUI on the desktop, though I need to remember the command to do it for the latter.

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.

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.



