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Review on LSI Broadcom 9300 8I PCI Express Profile by Chris Beals

Revainrating 2 out of 5

I/O port card firmware

I had to erase the BIOS and firmware for this card and reinstall the latest versions to make the card recognize drives (2TB 2 x WD and 2 x SanDisk ). At some point the card decided to drop WD and after a reboot started resyncing RAID10. Consistency checks are very inconsistent. Of course, enabling WriteCache on SSD drives increases write speeds significantly, from x8x to x10x, although LSI does NOT recommend it. I'm glad the card can be managed with the latest MegaRAID utility.

Pros
  • Nice
Cons
  • The packaging is ugly