

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


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

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.






Worked directly out of the box with my Asus P8H67-M EVO motherboard. Worked properly with Windows 7 pro 64 bit and Ubuntu 12.04LTS. No driver installation required. Just sat up and played. I have run speed testing under Ubuntu since it has a utility to do so and the speeds are comparable to the working port on my motherboard. (One SATA III port is not functioning.) Sometimes the testing flip flops, but again, the speed vs. the motherboard port is fine. In cached reads I get over 12 Gbyte/s on both the add-in card and the motherboard. Buffered reads ~189Mbytes/s. It was plug and play and both operating systems were happy as the bios handled it correctly.



*12Gb SAS -- Insanely fast (was able to read ~7300 MB/s from a large SSD stripe V-Dev) *LSI so you know it runs flawlessly out of the box on Linux *It's not a RAID card, just a pure host bus adapter that doesn't get in the way *Absolutely perfect HBA for a ZFSonLinux box (probably works well on *BSD too) *Supports 24 direct connections to drives or passive/direct backplane, or up to 1024 drives through expanders

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




very reliable.
