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

Easy to use GUI to configure Virtual Drives and Drive Spans. Onboard memory makes performance and caching features trustable and quick. LSI always makes great RAID controllers if you go for real hardware RAID. Great low profile size fits easily into any computer case.

Works great and low cost. Plugged it into BIOSTAR TZ68A PCIE X4. Windows 7 loaded driver. Rebooted. No conflicts with Intel Raid. Using it only for DVD burner. Up and running in 5 minutes. Was able to boot from rescue disk in DVD.


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.


* 16 6 gb/s ports with a totol throughput 12,888 MB/s * 16E HBA + JBOD + ZFS = legacy hardware raid killer * Ability to expand to 1024 disks.


-Recognized directly with Truenas -Well packaged in a plastic case to protect the card in shipping.



I have used a number of the MegaRAID controllers mostly with SATA drives but some SAS. They work well. I've tried them with a number of motherboards and have had no compatibility issues. Systems have been running Windows 7 Pro and Windows Server 2008 R2. Motherboards from ASRock, ASUS, MSI.





Okay, I know this is a somewhat dangerous experiment but I have this card running a RAID 5 array comprised of 7 WD RE4-GP recertified drives. That's 6 drives in RAID 5 with a hot spare for 9TBs of usable space. I have only had this running for a few weeks but so far I have no problems. LSI utilty for Windows server is great. Performance seems to be quite good as well with write speeds around 80-100mb/s and reads at around 120-130mb/s. So, for a low power controller with no onboard memory, it is doing a respectable job.

- 8 Ports - 6Gb/s Ports - Plays nice with other installed 3ware 9650SE-4LPML - RHEL6.x/Centos6.x/Fedora16,17,18 - Recognized without requiring interim Drivers! - Recognized without any problems with Asus P9X79-Pro LGA 2011 System board!


- on my windows 11 nas setup, it literally was just plug and play. All drives were immediately recognized