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I have 2 of these cards. This card showed me that it's possible for more than one server to see the same SAS storage drives at the same time. It was that amazing moment where you know it must be possible or Microsoft Failover Clustering will be impossible and I'd have to resort the the much inferior iSCSI for failover. Works incredibly well, with jbods like the AMAX StorMax J2241, the Dell MD1220, and the Data-ON DNS series. Driver support for windows seems great, they update regularly enough. I haven't used it for ESXi or VMWare yet, but I expect it to be solid given the prevalence of this card. It's literally the bread-and-butter of any datacenter. It works well with the LSI Interposer card, even when that card is attached to Samsung 840 Pro SSDs! It works well with MultiPath IO, which is part of Microsoft's Storage Spaces' path redundancy = more redundancy = good. It works well with the LSI SAS Swtich (note: Microsoft doesn't support sas switches yet) It can see regular sata drives, but failover clustering ONLY works with SAS drives (because they have 2 data paths), so don't blame LSI if you're using drives physically incapable of the task. Lastly, their support has been good to me. I've only had a few minor questions though and so answering my emails within 48 hours was perfectly acceptable.

One word: ZFS

Works perfect on 780I FTW evga motherboard. SSD and 7 series below CS do not like SSD's and have to use windows storage drivers on sata2. Put this in empty pciex16 2.0 slot and says 6gbps drive, but above shows slot 2.0 5gbps Anyways have a Kingston V300 128gb getting 400mbps 2 WD Black TB's dual processors getting over 200mbps, all 3 in card. Only drawback now is cpu is maxed and memory is maxed Perfect solution to older rigs with Sata2's driver was easy to install not sure about fresh install should be no biggie if needed just hookk ssd to normal sata port install then install card, and storage driver turn off hook up ssd and other sata3 drives. Best to make bootable .iso of the install disk and keep paper for path of correct drivers in text file backed up on storage drive!!!!!!

Fast Easy to use GUI and BIOS Port expander compatible Tons of configuration options / RAID levels / informational alerts

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.