
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.

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


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

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




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

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.



Based on an ASMedia ASM1061 chip, this card works well with all the latest Intel and AMD boards -- unlike the Marvell-based cards. It's faster, too -- I get ~180MBps (vs 150) sustained drive-to-drive transfer in Windows explorer, WITH antivirus and all my apps running. Works perfectly with a port multiplier (such as the Addonics AD5ESAPM-E), RAID enclosures, DVD-writers -- everything I've thrown at it. (but see Cons regarding multipliers) These cost a little more than the other ASM1061 cards I've bought, but the quality is obviously better -- connectors, capacitors, etc., right down to the jumper settings clearly printed on the card.





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

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

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.