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- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality

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

standard card, no drivers needed for OS

Very fast. Did I mention it is fast. My CPU is fast, but this allows my CPU to not do any RAID parity calculations. Also, this has 1 GB onboard cache which does help with some file transfers. I mainly need fast sequential reads/writes with large files. Supports PCIe 3.0 and backwards compatible, which is good because Sandy Bridge CPUs do not support PCIe 3.0 :-( Future proof as these support 12 Gb/sec or excess of 1.2 GB/s if you have PCIe 3.0. My HDDs are too slow to take advantage of the speed, but it has helped in the RAID 5 though. The SSDs on it are insane.

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.

I needed more sata ports, and my motherboard only had 3. This allowed me to add 4 more ports, and thus 4 more hard drives. The card was recognized by windows 10, so I had no driver issues. The card worked so great that I ended up buying another card.

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

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

Fast enough. Added new life to an old PC my wife uses.

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

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