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.
- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality
-Cheap -Compatible with TrueNAS -Fast Transfering over single 10Gb from Windows -> TrueNAS RAID10 -> RAIDZ @ [~700-980 MB/s]
well performing
Great Raid card that's extremely Quick (would be perfect for lots of SSD's) Easy to Setup
I added this interface to a Proxmox VM system to add SSD drives to a virtual NAS machine. Proxmox easily identified the controller and I was able to pass thru the SSD's to the NAS.
Fast, Stable, Quick booting.
I got this card to add a little bit of life to my old X58 setup that I use for gaming and Photoshop. It was pretty easy to install: just set the jumpers to use the internal SATA ports, stick it into the case, connect the drives, and power on the PC. I set up two Sandisk Z400s SSDs on this card since they're my boot drives for Windows and Linux. Before installing Debian onto the second SSD, I tested file copy performance in Windows 10. A 1 GB (= 1,048,576 kB) test file copied in just a few seconds. More precise testing with a 500 MB file in DiskMark revealed performance on par with the SATA 3 controller in my 2013 laptop. Random reads at 159 MB/s and sequential at 406 MB/s are what I call "good enough"; if they weren't, I'd be looking at a PCIe SSD. Ditto for sequential writes at 187 MB/s and random writes at 166 MB/s. The few Steam games I have on my SSD load faster, and my Photoshop seems to be more sprightly as well. This card works great with older BIOS-based machines like my X58 motherboard (ASUS P6T Deluxe V2). I just thought I'd throw that out there for those of you not yet using a UEFI motherboard.
- Works out of the box on FreeBSD 11 - No issues with 4Kn drives