
- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality


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


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. ;-)


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.




Works LSI Logic controllers just work better than anything else on the market. Perform great, and work reliably.


Easy to setup, heavy, well finished heatsink. Plugged in drives and worked as advertised. Speeds as expected for NVMe drives

Easy setup Fast Great for hooking up an SSD to an older motherboard to provide ACHI support.



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.


Fast. Inexpensive compared to similar offerings from the competition. Feature rich. Great graphical and command line interface. 24/7 technical support from LSI. Works flawlessly with ESXi 4.1 with a single-digit modification to the driver's accompanying XML file.

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.