Still for the price I can hardly complain. It's really a pretty slick card.Ĭons: As another reviewer pointed out, it has no cache which definitely slows the write performance of my RAID 5. This is my first hardware RAID, so once I got through some little technical details, I was off and running. For the price, I can hardly complain, seeing as it's another $100 to get anything better.
It can do various raid systems and has 8 ports. Pros: This card seems to be a good entry level hardware card. I do recommend upgrading the card BIOS to v2.5 if not shipped The card also detects 500G versions of Seagate, WD, Samsung and Hitachi drives with no issues in all confirmed RAID configurations, and have 1T, 1.5T & 2T drives running in production with this card or other LSI controllers.
Ubuntu 10.04.2LTS has the driver kernel native and is detected correctly at setup, so no additional drivers are needed. Ubuntu RAID 1 works with LVM ext4 RAID 1, 5 & 10 works with NON LVM configurations and ext3 for Grub to work correctly. I have confirmed RAID 1, 5 & 10 works with 2003R2 & 2008R2. This is a test box in my lab used to test various OS and server software before going into production using this or better versions of LSI controllers. Overall Review: This card works great with ASUS board M4A89GTD PRO/USB in a x16 slot using onboard graphics Item N82E16813131631 CPU: Phenom II X4 840 RAM: 4x4G Corsair CMX4GX3M1A1333C9. Pros: Solid on various OS, battery backup option Everything is flawless and so far reliable. I personally use this on a U-NAS 8 drive enclosure with a Gigabyte motherboard and a Xeon E3-1225v2. Do your research, Google your problem, and come to a solution. This is basic troubleshooting 101 people. What other reviewers have probably not done is enabled Legacy BIOS support and/or Option ROM support. Overall Review: The card works fine on UEFI bios. I personally use it for passthrough on a Xpenology VM with ESXi and it works great in that application, and is VERY fast.Ĭons: No hardware assisted RAID, but you should have known that and done your research before buying the card. This is great for things like FreeNAS, NAS4Free, or Xpenology. What is nice is that you can use SAS expanders with it and attach a ton of drives. In IT mode, it will behave the same as a motherboard SATA controller. Where this card really shines is when you put it in IT mode. It does not have a battery backed cache so RAID 5 and 50 are going to be very slow performing and there will not be any hardware assisted write-back caching mechanism. Pros: This card works great for a simple RAID 0,1, or 10 setup.
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