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Works out-of-the-box with various Linux distros using 4.x kernel (currently Debian Stable) Works well with mdadm Simple settings Works well/reliably/as advertised

-- Connect up-to 16 drives -- Detected without issue in FreeNAS 9.10

This card replaced three 8 disk SAS cards in my system. This card simply just works without any issue. I have been running it for about 8 months with 21 data disks and 3 parity disks in a FlexRAID configuration that recalculates parity every 24 hours. Given how dynamic some of my data is the parity recalculation cycles can be a couple hours long and this card is rock solid with that really heavy i/o.

Flashed this card to the IR firmware, flashed all 4 of my SSD's to the most current firmware then threw them into a raid-0 array. Getting 2GB/s read and write speeds according to ATTO starting at the 128k chunk size.

Very fast array creation and initialization. SATA 6Gb/s and SAS 12Gb/s interface capability. Will happily confirm the array integrity after a sudden power loss, unfortunately had to do it a few times before I broke down and bought the LSICVM02 addon kit, another $200. Read and write speeds are pretty amazing on this controller and the rated I/O performance feels like it's there. SSD Guard feature ensures that TRIM is monitored and maintained.

My trusty old Asus P5Q Pro is now my HTPC motherboard, and I wanted to see if I could get some more speed out of the Crucial CT128M4SSD2 that I use as the OS drive. Using Crystal Disk Mark, the sequential speeds with the standard SATA port were 267/185. I installed the Syba controller in a PCI-E X1 slot at first, Windows 10 installed a driver, and I then shut it down and moved the SATA cable to the card; as expected, when installed in an X1 slot, it had significantly slower speeds than the board's own SATA port - 194/158. I then installed it in the open X16 PCI-E slot, and repeated the test, which resulted in 380/197. I was hoping for a little more speed than that, but that isn't too bad, and it is a significant improvement over the board's own SATA port.