12G External PCI-E SAS/SATA HBA RAID Controller Card, Broadcom's SAS 3008, compatible for SAS 9300-8E

1) Adpater: Nach kurzer Betriebszeit hat der Adapter sein BIOS nicht mehr laden können, hat das auch brav gemeldet:"Unable to load Avago Technologies MPT BIOSMPT BIOS Fault 05h encountered at Adapter"Kaputt ist kaputt.Der zweite Adapter erzeugt zufällige bitfehler die dann so aussehen als wären die angeschlossenen Festplatten defekt; vermeintliche Block-Lesefehler (jedesmal andere Blöcke). Die Festplatten selbst bestehen an anderen Controllern jeden test fehlerfrei.IO-hängt regelmäßig bei konkurrierenden Zugriffen für mehr als 120sec.

Tut seinen Dienst in einem ITX Gehäuse, wird dort allerdings mangels aktiven Airflow etwas heiss.Eine variante mit kleinen Lüfter wäre nice.

Using TrueNAS Core/FreeNAS under ESXi v6.7 with PCIe passthrough. Working exactly as desired. Six 6 TB Hitachi He8 drives in ZFS "striped mirrors".EDIT: Worked for over a year, though only on weekends for backup jobs. I've pushed a lot of data through this card, using iSCSI and SMB. It's been retired (for x16 SAS/SATA ports) but worked like a charm.

I should firstly say the card looks new and legit and it was detected no problem. However when I installed TrueNAS and attempted to create a pool of 5 drives it seemed as if two of the drives were faulty. One always blames the drives first because maybe they were damaged in transit. But I was wrong. Through a process of elimination (swapping around cables between drives and ports on the card) I was able to establish conclusively that of the 8 breakout ports the cards supports, 3 are not operating properly. Unfortunately for me, it took a while before I was able to get all the components and build this system so it appears I am just outside the Amazon return/replacement window. While I do currently only need 5 working ports, it makes me uneasy that there may be some other issues and my data is worth more than the card. I'll probably be looking at other options for replacement.Update: Amazon sent me a replacement card that is working without any issues. The supplier was also prepared to do a replacement, which I appreciate. So all good here. :-)

I installed it on my system to connect an SFF-8644 JBODI no longer have a CD-ROM, so the provided optical disk was useless. I had to find seller website 10tek to be able to download drivers. The installation process was fairly standard, but not straightforward.Please provide clear URL where to download drivers. CD-ROM is just obsolete!