Review on 🔧 Enhanced Performance and Versatility: LSI Logic Megaraid Eight-Port 6Gb/s PCI Express 3.0 SATA+SAS RAID Controller LSI00330 by Kevin Woods

Good card but incomplete without battery. I installed it on my home media server as I wanted more capacity with protection and since I have a RAID block in front of the battery I decided to do some testing. If you set it up as a RAID with no battery backup, you'll get about 5MB/s throughput. This would mean that the 4.5TB of data I would need to migrate would take 4 *days* to migrate from the USB backup to the new RAID 6 array. Let it run for a few hours to ensure throughput is supported at this level. and also find the manufacturer's TID which says the card is limited to that speed if you don't have a battery. So we installed the battery and looked forward to the charging cycle. to complete as it takes about 3 hours. Raid array performance is now 160MB/s with no parity. I will do another test once the initialization process is complete. When you can get over 30x throughput just by adding a battery, there's really no reason to invest in a card without a battery. And that doesn't even address the data integrity reasons for a battery. When purchasing a battery, make sure you are not purchasing a reconditioned or used one. Also, check the battery's manufacture date, although you probably won't be able to do this until after you've received the item. Note on the interface. It works, but I'm not a big fan. It looks very archaic and for some reason resembles working with Novell NetWare. It is Java based and requires manual updating to load new information. Conclusion: RAID != Backup In the time I was writing this test, 266 GB of storage was moved. Don't buy without a battery. Just. Not. The interface must be better.