Pros: Big, fast, cheap(ish). I'm getting consistent 900 MB/s sequential reads and writes in a 12-drive RAID6 on an Adaptec 51245 (960 MB/s hdparm score).

Cons: None

Overall Review: Purchased 13 of these about 3 months ago. Set 12 up in a RAID6 on an Adaptec 51245, keep the 13th one in a filing cabinet as a spare. No hiccups during setup or after, they just work.

Pros: Lots of space I guess

Cons: Unreliable, like all Seagate drives. I put 24 of these 10 TB drives (ST10000VN0004) in a NAS server, it worked great for about a year, then they started dropping like flies. Over the last 6 months I've lost 4 drives in this one machine, and the failures show no signs of slowing down. Stay away from Seagate, stick to HGST or Western Digital. The systems I have with 24x HGST or WD drives typically lose one drive every 1-2 years. The ones I have with Seagate (identical chassis, identical airflow, same rack in the same server room) lose drives about 5-10x more often.

Overall Review: Immediately recognized in Mint 21, no drivers or other setup required. It doesn't seem to be throttling the connections either, speed is good. The only problem is it runs very hot, even with the drives idling the heatsink on this board gets hot enough to burn you if you touch it. I ended up installing a fan in the PCI slot below this card to blow air directly on it and that keeps things much more comfortable.

Overall Review: This is a beast of a processor. Im using it with a Supermicro X13SRA-TF in a home server that runs a bunch of VMs. 16 full power cores plus 4 DDR5 channels with 128 GB of RAM. Its fast, quiet, never throttles, etc.

Overall Review: Works perfectly with a W5-2465X on a Supermicro X13SRA-TF. It comes with all required adapters, cables, etc. One note on the X13SRA and probably most other Supermicro motherboards, the idle speed of this fan is very low. Its still plenty to keep the CPU cool (mine sits at ~31C at a load of 1), but its slow enough that it can trigger a low fan speed error and cause the controller to ramp the fans up to max. If this happens youll want to use a utility like ipmitool to lower the thresholds so the motherboard is happy with the lower fan speed.

Overall Review: I installed this in a Mint 21/Ubuntu 22.04 box. There were no issues setting up or using the card, works as expected.

Prompt shipping, item new and as described