

- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality

-Cheap -Compatible with TrueNAS -Fast Transfering over single 10Gb from Windows -> TrueNAS RAID10 -> RAIDZ @ [~700-980 MB/s]


*12Gb SAS -- Insanely fast (was able to read ~7300 MB/s from a large SSD stripe V-Dev) *LSI so you know it runs flawlessly out of the box on Linux *It's not a RAID card, just a pure host bus adapter that doesn't get in the way *Absolutely perfect HBA for a ZFSonLinux box (probably works well on *BSD too) *Supports 24 direct connections to drives or passive/direct backplane, or up to 1024 drives through expanders




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

low cost. amazing for non raid proformance increase.




Works out-of-the-box with ESXi 5.1 Connected 4 WD Raptors in 2x RAID 0 configuration. I'm not using the extra ($$$) battery backup. Instead I plug the entire computer into a CyberPower UPS

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

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.


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.

