Sylvain
Reviewed in Canada on March 16, 2024
Fast and perfect
Thomas Scherer
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2023
These IBM cards can be reflashed to take the Avago/LSI/Broadcom firmware. It turns it into a 9240-8i that support RAID 1, 0 and 5 with megaraid firmware. These can be cross flashed to Avago/LSI/Broadcom 9205-8I that is a true HBA for things like VSAN, Ceph or ZFS. These are a great value and cheaper than purchasing a HBA.Highs:Supports RAID or HBA with cross flashLower cost than OEM Avago/LSI/Broadcom cards
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2023
This SATA controller does not work with my SATA drives; my mistake for not checking that it would work with my drive before ordering.
cor
Reviewed in Canada on December 15, 2023
A little tricky to set up but there's plenty of info to learn about it, update the firmware if you are installing big drives
J. Brockman
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2023
Using it to test SAS and SATA drives for production. The software takes a bit to set up but once it's running it works well.
Justin Stiles
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2022
Do not buy if you need a replacement for LSI SAS 9260-8i. It will not recognize your old raid array and will be a huge waste of your time. This model also only has 256mb of cache. Spend an extra $50 and get a 9260-8i with 512mb of cache and you will be good to go.
Greg Wysocki
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2022
Easy to install. Card is working good so far. Flashed to latest firmware using Megaraid storage manager. The initialization has been running and will take about another day with the 6 large HDD in the array. All drivers and firmware are available on the Broadcom website under legacy raid controllers.
Jorge Patiño
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2022
Funciona según los esperado, actualice el firmware al más reciente (se encuentra desde la pagina broadcom, 9260-8i), igualmente se encuentran los controladores y otras utilidades o documentación.Agregue unidades de 18TB Seagete exos interface SAS en raid 0 y funcionan correctamente, el disipador que trae la tarjeta se calienta bastante, espero no sea un problema en el futuro.
Stephany
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2021
Works as advertised, no problems so far in my testing with a Debian based Linux distro (OpenMediaVault). If you're o.k. with hardware raid, this controller should be fine. Just need to take the time to learn how to use the available LSI CLI/GUI management tools. Research indicates it can't be flashed to an IT mode JBOD; if that's not your use case this could work.
Spuwho
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2021
Firmware for these date back to 2010. Update to 2014 firmware or some SSD's will only signal 3Gbps not 6Gbps. Some modern consumer boards will need the CSM set properly so it will be recognized. This one would not set the VD in WebBIOS, had to set array up via OS management tools. After that Windows 10 2H20 or Ubuntu Focal works fine. Without a BBU I am getting 375MBps writes and 2600Mbps on reads. Depending on the SSD brand will pass through drive temps.
S.Day
Reviewed in Canada on May 29, 2020
The computer recognizes it as an IBM ServeRAID M5015, which threw me off at first. It came with very old firmware, and I had trouble finding updated firmware by Google for the ServeRAID M5015. But I found that you can flash the LSI 9260-8i firmware on it, so I did that. I was able to flash it with the Windows MSM and flashed with no problems.side note. Some people online talk about the ServeRAID having a much slower post when the computer boots up. If you do not need it to post during start up, most motherboards will bypass this within their own EUFI by selecting quick boot. If you need to get into the STORE CLI or anything like that, just go back into the EUFI and turn OFF quick boot.