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About this product
Product Identifiers
BrandDell
eBay Product ID (ePID)19006955695
Product Key Features
Network PortsSAS
Compatible PortPCI Express x8
Ratings and reviews
Most relevant reviews
- 19 Feb, 2018
Works great
Worked fine as is on my A88X-Pro motherboard. As the other reviewer mentioned, some motherboards may need the B5 and B6 PCIE pins blocked to work. The only issue I had was unrelated to the card. Apparently some newer HGST drives need the 3rd sata power pin blocked when using some but not all connectors, or they won't spin up. Since some of you may use these cards with HGST drives, it shouldn't hurt to mention this here and save you some hours of searching for a solution and thinking their is a problem with the card. Here's a pdf with a list of which drives have this surprise feature. search for "HGST-Power-Disable-Pin-TB.pdf" See included photo, the 3.3v pins in orange can all be covered.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 22 Mar, 2018
Great HBA, much better deal to be had here than anywhere else
theartofserver did a great job with getting this ready for ZFS and has been performing great. This is a Dell Perc card, so as others have said, you may need to cover pins B5 (SMCLK, SMBus clock) an B6 (SMDAT, SMBus data) on the PCI card edge if you are using a desktop mobo. Google these terms for a guide. Highly recommended!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 21 Jun, 2020
Very nice for FreeNAS builds
Awesome product. Exactly what I needed. Without zero hiccups. I was able to put together a new server build with this modified HBA and the OS picked up all drives immediately. Adding new drives to my ZFS pool was just as easy.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 21 Apr, 2019
Great for linux server
Works great with linux (there are good commandline tools available to work with these cards.) I had to erase the BIOS (not the firmware) to get these to work in all PCIe slots on my particular motherboard. I am running 16 disks off of a pair of these cards (some in RAID5 under linux, some ZFS.) No problems recognizing drives that were formatted before in other systems (IE. HBA IT-mode does not write any data to the disk itself or hide any sectors unlike some other cards I have tried.)
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 Jan, 2018
Arrived promptly and works perfectly after a bit of tinkering!
There were some changes that I needed to make to the card that's of no fault to the seller. My target system's BIOS was incompatible with the option ROM of the card (symptom was lots of ASCII garbage printed to the screen), so I reflashed IT mode without the option ROM to resolve that. Additionally, I had to block out PCIE pins B5 and B6 otherwise my system would not POST. Both of these fixes are well documented online if anyone reading this experiences these issues.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 12 Jun, 2019
It works exactly like how you'd expect!
The beauty of fundamental server components like SAS modules is that if they're working and flashed properly, there's really nothing to talk about and that's the case here. It works great, full stop. It's picked up by Unraid (6.6) and though I don't have enough drives to test the full 6Gbps, it seems to handle well and stay at a reasonable temp. If you're tired of hunting for a SAS card that will just work after spending hours trying to figure out why flashing your own card isn't working, you've come to the right place.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 19 Sep, 2019
Using for UnRaid in Dell T30
This seller flashes these cards with proper firmware for UnRaid, FreeNAS, etc. Easy to install. Need the proper SAS to SATA cables though. I bought cables from a different seller that didn't work. This seller sent me a troubleshooting video that was excellent. Sourced better cables and now things are working. This seller is excellent and really knows his stuff. This card allows you to add up to 8 more SATA drives.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 21 Jul, 2020
Great for Unraid
I used this to connect 8 front loading drive bays in my server chassis for an Unraid install. Hot swap works great! Didn't have to do anything special to get it working. Just plug it in and off you go. Thanks!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 24 Jul, 2020
Great added storage now for my Plex server.
Card runs great. More hard drives now for more storage. You might want to put a fan on this card as it does run very warm.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 18 Feb, 2020
awesome equipment
Thank you "art of server" for being there. I am glad to see someone dedicated to making equipment that works flawlessly.The card came really quick in 2 day and helped me to get started on my project in a timely manner.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
