It worked plug and play on windows, i can even access the drives from the hyper-v vm without problems.

It worked plug and play on windows, i can even access the drives from the hyper-v vm without problems.  Read Less

I created the new zfs2 array with all 8 drives, copied all ~15tb of data back to the nas and everything has been working fine ever since.

I created the new zfs2 array with all 8 drives, copied all ~15tb of data back to the nas and everything has been working fine ever since.  Read Less

Uefi bios sees the drives attached through the card, and linux identified and mounted the partitions using guid with zero chang...  Read More

Uefi bios sees the drives attached through the card, and linux identified and mounted the partitions using guid with zero changes after swapping to this card.  Read Less

Tried on windows 11 and fedoracan support 8 drives.

Tried on windows 11 and fedoracan support 8 drives.  Read Less

Don't try to save the $35 or how ever much it is, the cheap syba card is not worth the trouble.

Don't try to save the $35 or how ever much it is, the cheap syba card is not worth the trouble.  Read Less

That's what i get for the price.

That's what i get for the price.  Read Less

You can do the cost/benefit analysis for your own needs/risk acceptance.

You can do the cost/benefit analysis for your own needs/risk acceptance.  Read Less

Mine came in a clamshell like packaging with no box.

Mine came in a clamshell like packaging with no box.  Read Less

Further research of these cards yields (google "lsi sas2 2308 mustang" - which is what device manager sees this card as) that t...  Read More

Further research of these cards yields (google "lsi sas2 2308 mustang" - which is what device manager sees this card as) that this is an oem card, as i found the drivers for this card on a dell support website as well as the hp support website (the latest drivers i could find for this card were windows 8.  Read Less

It's much better than those cheap sata cards out there and gives you a pathway to start using sas drives in your computer or nas.

It's much better than those cheap sata cards out there and gives you a pathway to start using sas drives in your computer or nas.  Read Less

In short, research has suggested that sas has an advantage when it comes to multiple people accessing data on disk, sas can bot...  Read More

In short, research has suggested that sas has an advantage when it comes to multiple people accessing data on disk, sas can both send and receive data at the same time while sata cannot (sata can only send or receive at once).  Read Less

I cannot say how fast it is compared to other cards, but it works well for my needs (it can handle a full gigabit network conne...  Read More

I cannot say how fast it is compared to other cards, but it works well for my needs (it can handle a full gigabit network connection at full speed (105-112mb/sec with large file transfers and with ethernet's overhead)).  Read Less