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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

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 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.

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

Works LSI Logic controllers just work better than anything else on the market. Perform great, and work reliably.

Super fast M.2 X 3 using raid zero.

Threw it in an older AM2+ system to use instead of the problematic onboard controller. Boots and runs fine under Windows 7. I didn't bother with the drivers that came on the included disc or from the manufacturers site. I have yet to test the speed of it but it doesn't appear any slower than the onboard sata.

This card does exactly what it is engineered to do. A Client of mine ordered this card (from newegg) for me to install. For an "entry level" product, it really kicks some serious b*tt! MUCH faster than Intel's built in "wannabe RAID" ICH10R and MILES ahead of Marvell's on-board SATA III solution---which doesn't work at all for RAID. It adds approx. 15 seconds to boot time, but that is to be expected . Having no onboard memory, this card doesn't get as hot as other cards (with onboard memory). I decided we didn't need the memory because we were using 4 X Crucial SATA 3 ( 6Gbps) SSD's (128GB X 4 C300 series). All four SSD's started drooling when they saw me unbox this card! You will NOT get the full performance from SATA 3 with the SATA bottleneck. A PCIe solution will allow SSD's to run at their full potential, even though TRIM is not supported. TRIM is not necessary with Garbage Collection and there are ways to TRIM the drives anyway

Excellent performance. Easy install comes with a low profile bracket. Excellent configuration software for Windows featuring both a command line application and windows GUI. Perfect if you need to script remote control of RAID array. Update to date drivers for the latest operating systems. Supports creation of very large arrays.