
Works out-of-the-box with various Linux distros using 4.x kernel (currently Debian Stable) Works well with mdadm Simple settings Works well/reliably/as advertised

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

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.



Host Bus Adapter card shipped in IT mode with firmware 20.00.02.00 All I had to do was update the firmware to 20.00.07.00 to use with FreeNAS version 11 The newer chipset runs on PCIe 3.0 which is supported on my X11SSM-F motherboard. Worth paying more for the genuine product, no chance of getting a knockoff card. ;-)

Blazing speed, I have this hooked to a LSI 9211-8i HBA running under Solaris 11 Express with 6 of these Hitcchi 1.5TB's configured in raidz current getting 275MB/sec read and 225MB/sec write w/ dd tests. 400-550 Mbps on 1 GigE NFS/iSCSI served up through COMSTAR stack running 20+ vSphere VM's with very good performance. ZFS Open Storage Server saves the day!

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.

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




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





- Easy to install - It seemed to work perfectly fine without using the driver CD - Gives you an additional 4 SATA slots - Is hotswappable - Only takes up one bracket slot on the back of your PC

