

Works as advertised and are easy to install.


They are nicely plated and good heavy quality. I have used about 100 packages of these with maybe one or two flawed screws.





This shelf is very sturdy and reasonably priced.


I downloaded The software in less than 15 Minutes from when I ordered "ONLINE".. Copied the serial# to my word processor. I copied both items to my other 2 computers last night Will install on the 3thrd computer later today.





My LSI SAS92804i4e RAID10 config was getting about 100MB/s in write-through mode, the mode recommended if you don't have a BBU installed on the card (even if you use a UPS). This is about the speed of a Synology. With the BBU installed and writeback mode, I get well over 600MB/s. No brainer.



To those with hot swapping failures - see first if your mobo itself will allow it. Chances are it wont or may require a bios setup change. Test your motherboard for hot swapping without the iStar yourself, it's easy enough. A PCI express sata card will usually be ok but not always. All there is inside this unit is a sata connector, nothing electronic to conk out, be incompatible, or of shoddy design. I use mine to test multi OSes and to clone boot drives for backup purposes. Works for me.
