LSI 9300-16i 16-Port 12Gb/s SAS Controller HBA Card with P16 IT Mode for ZFS TrueNAS unRAID

Excelente producto, viene listo para usarse, solo hay que conectar los cables y listo, el software que trae pre-cargado funciona perfectamente en modo IT justo como lo menciona el vendedor. Como es bien sabido, esta tarjeta puede calentarse bastante entonces es una muy buena idea comprar un ventilador pequeño y un bracket para sujetarlo justo debajo de la tarjeta, así se mantiene a buena temperatura todo el tiempo. La he usado casi un año y ha funcionado sin ningún problema con 16 discos de entre 8TB y 24TB.

Bought to use in my TrueNAS setup and it worked right away. No setup, no drivers, nothing extra required software wise to make this work. It was an instant drop in adapter to let my SAS drives to their thing.

Card is not recognized by the motherbord.

This is a great card for the price, but don't expect to simply drop it into a standard desktop case and it work. It will require a little, research, tinkering and tweaking to make it work for your situation. Below I've addressed some items I saw in other reviews. Hopefully this helps future buyers make a good buy for their home lab. Despite other reviews complaining about this card not shipping with the latest firmware, I can confirm both of the cards I received had P16. One was 0.10.0 and the other was 0.12.0. From my 5 minute Google search there were no major changes made between the 10 and 12 revisions so don't worry about it. These cards do come with the boot services image installed in case you are wanting to boot from them. This is a reasonable safe assumption on the part of the seller because someone could want to boot from one of these rather than an NVMe or SSD in their home lab, but who am I to judge. The boot services do slow down the boot process if they are left on the card. In my case with 2 cards in one case that would have added close to a minute of extra boot time. Since I'm booting Proxmox from a sata SSD and these cards are being used for my 24bay SAS 12g case plus an external MD1200 SAS shelf the boot services weren't necessary. If you don't need boot services then grab the sas3flash.efi from broadcom, find a tutorial and delete that boot image. The other major concern about these cards was a heat issue. These cards were designed to be in a server grade case with what most would consider overkill and loud fans. If you are a home lab user with a standard desktop case designed for quiet, you will need to rig up some kind of fan system to ensure proper airflow across the heat sink. Some attached an 80mm fan straight on the heat sink, which is a viable option. Personally I would grab a PCI expansion slot fan and use that to avoid damage to the card itself with screws or zip ties. Just my opinion.

Card was working fine for first 3 months, then overheated (reached 99.0c during a restripe) and corrupted my raid6. Now i am getting constant i/o issues and my connected hard drives are continuously dropping under load. Works fine for light use, but gets very hot under larger read/write tasks.