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14 reviews
MegaRAID 9261-8i is an excellent quality and inexpensive RAID solution
Great quality MegaRAID card works right out of the box. It comes with RAID 5 & 6 without a license however, if you want other MegaRAID management features such as CacheCade Pro 2.0, Recovery and SafeStore will need a separate license and have to purchase a license on chip or software key. Using an HP z420 workstation, this card snapped right into an open PCI-e 8x slot and was working immediately. I needed this card to rescue an ailing RAID5 6TB array and did a fantastic job building a new 12TB RAID5 array to store the backup operations. Fast, quick to install and configure. Installed the MegaRAID management suite to manage the array while in Windows 10 (or may also be installed in Windows server.)Read full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: sergecook
It's OK for HDD not great for SSD
Pros:
Works fine as a single card
Works well with SATA/SAS HDD drives
Good FW and driver support
Cons:
Was only able to push ~72K Seq and Rand Read and ~60K 70/30 R/W Seq/Rand IOPS with 8 SSD drives @RAID-0 with 16K SZ, Cache: WriteBack enabled/Read disabled/Drive enabled
FastPath useless with anything smaller than 128K stripe size
FastPath performs bad with random writes at higher than 4K block size (not suitable for many workloads)
No really suitable for SSD drives (don't take full potential of SSD speed... something like Adaptec ASR 71605 would be a better option)
Didn't work with other 2nd 9260-8i controller installed in my system (HP Z620)
Not supported with ESX 7.x but OK with anything 6.xRead full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: ebl2018
A whole lotta bandwidth in one small card
I had no problems setting up a RAID 10 configuration with 14 drives in a Dell PowerVault MD1000 and one hot spare. I even had a drive failure in the first few minutes of operation (I was alerted by the piercing alarm), and a rebuild started automatically on the hot spare.
The device and the virtual drive were all recognized in Windows 7 without the need to install any additional drivers.Read full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: rar-inc
Real RAID Controller
Product works as expected as a REAL RAID controller.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: atreyu4xac
Great card, easy to use
Works well out of the box. Does everything I need it to. Have it hooked up to 8 drives in RAID6.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: ebl2018
Good product, still working after 1 year.
Good product, still working after 1 year.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: serverplus365
i'll use this later on another project
it's a raid only device cannot work as a sata 8 port controller , i didn't do my research first. very nice quality, outdated on screen interface
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: xuanwen-2011
Works GREAT!!!
I hooked it up and i was ready to see the 6 4tb hard drives in Raid5. Works GREAT!!!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: rar-inc
Just what I needed
All the other controllers which claimed to support larger that 2 TB did not work. This worked flawlessly.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: minostechnology
Happy
Happy with product. As described.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: azbsdtempe