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




Works out of the box with ESXi 5.0. Raid 10 with 8 drives that typically read/write at 90mb/s is reading and writing around 450mb/s. Fast! Comes with long cables that take care of your needs. You can attach your own LED's to the pins on the card to monitor activity, failures and cache. Battery available as a separate purchase to keep your write-back cache safe... buy the battery! Without using the write-back cache, your performance will drop significantly... up to 75% from what I've read. You can enable write-back without one, but a power outage will drop your cache data. If this is for a lab, maybe you don't care... but why play with fire? I'd hate to lose my Exchange VM due to the girlfriend plugging in a hair dryer and popping the breaker.


No issues, was able to import my ZFS array without any problems.






Super fast file transfer Recognized all of my 24 WD 12TB HDDs upon drivers install without any issues. Comes in IT mode firmware preinstalled so great right out of the box. Extremely well constructed.




- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality


expands storage. option rom loads fast, only adds a few seconds to boot time.
