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

The LSI-9305 required no setup. Merely plug it in, connect the SAS cables to the backplane and poof, done. This card supports 3.0 and 6.0 gb/s hard drives and SSD's

Windows 10 home recognized it right away installed the drivers and it's been working great.

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.

Fast. Copying from my old computer to this one across gigabit ethernet uses well over half the available bandwith. The write speed is just so much better than the on board Intel raid. For another 250, you can add another 15 or 20 drives if you have that need, search for "intel raid expander." And did I say fast. Good tech support.

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

Super fast M.2 X 3 using raid zero.

Plug and play with VMWare ESXi 5.1 - a big plus, and exactly what I needed to add a couple of spare drives I had to my server. Speed is OK - on average 16-50 mbytes per second transfer (plugged into a PCI Express 2.0 x8 slot). Not as fast as onboard ports, but fast enough to do most jobs. Build quality looks to be good. Other comments talked about the brackets not fitting, and the onboard ports being fragile, but they must have improved quality because those issues were not present on the one I received. The bracket was on solid, and fit into the slot perfectly, and the onboard ports were snug and held the cable solidly.

Great Raid card. This is not a high performance card, so if your expecting high perf and don't get it, don't complain, buy the card with 512MB of cache if you want high perf. This card is a great on board raid replacement. On board raids are not reliable majority of the time and are not true RAID but Virtual RAID. If you looking for something to take it's place and plan on running RAID 5 for Data storage, this card is great. I have it hooked up to 5 Samsung 2TB 7200 RPM drives and it has been rock solid for nearly 2 years. Write speeds average around 110/mbps going from my SSD to the RAID, this is what I would expect for a Raid card at this price range running RAID 5. I can't comment on SSD perf with this card as I have never done it, but I imagine with Average write speeds of 110/mbps with 7200RPM platter drives you can expect at least double that. Really happy I bought this card as it has never done me wrong in the 2 years I have owned it. The web driven UI is awesome and easy to manage. Setup was a breeze and I had no driver issues with Win 7 x64 or Win 8/8.1. I actually bought another one of these for my Hyper-v Host, Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, no issues there either, driver install was a breeze and raid setup/config was just as easy. If you looking for a Raid replacement for your poor virtual on board raid, this is the answer, buy it and be happy!

Fast sata III access to internal or external drives. Works perfectly with multi-drive docking stations.

Card was easy to install and with 4 SSDs in a RAID-10 I get 800 MB/s in sequential read and write for several seconds before exhausting the cache and dropping down to 150 MB/s. I am using this array for booting and storing Windows 8 virtual machines on my VDI server and I have yet to hear any performance complaints even while running 20 machines from the array.