
- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality



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

low cost. amazing for non raid proformance increase.



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.


Works well. I bought both the main board and the card.




easy set up

Installed easily



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

This is the card you want. Yes, it's expensive. Swallow hard and buy it. Pleasantly surprised at the speeds I'm getting. 4x Seagate Constellation ES.3 1TB disks in a RAID10 array, and I see 350MB/s (with little bursts up into the 1200MB/s territory) and 500 IOPS. It's nice that this one has 1GB of RAM for caching, as opposed to the 9260 which only has 512MB.

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.