
NO RAID Real HBA PCI Gen 3 Works awesome with Windows Storage Spaces

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



Super fast file transfer Recognized all of my 24 WD 12TB HDDs upon drivers install without any issues. Comes in IT mode firmware preinstalled so great right out of the box. Extremely well constructed.


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




To the user frustrated with the socket location on the 9260-8i, you need to look into the LSI 9261-8i instead. It's the same card but with the sockets at the rear of the card for better routing in 2U servers.

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


standard card, no drivers needed for OS

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.

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.

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


Installed on my HP Prodesk running Win10 x64 boot/reboot and everything is running perfectly. Windows installed the correct driver with no issues or further configuration required.

One word: ZFS