LSI Broadcom SAS 9300-8i 8-port 12Gb/s SATA+SAS PCI-Express 3.0 Low Profile Host Bus Adapter

I purchased this card from Amazon as there isn't really any options for this that I could find here in South Africa. I got the card as I was building up a server of sorts in my old PC case and wanted to stuff a lot of hard drives into the case (it takes 13 drives total) so that I could get to grips with Windows Server Storage Spaces, maybe TrueNAS ZFS skills etc. The motherboard I'm using has 8 SATA ports, but 4 of them are SATAII speed only and everyone always sings the gospel of these Host Bus Adapters, so I decided to purchase this one. The shipment was pretty fast from the USA to South Africa. The package itself was wrapped well enough, though there was some denting and deformation to the exterior packaging. However the card was protected well enough and was in pristine shape. The included CD is pretty badly out of date and the documentation isn't super helpful, but it was all included as was the low profile bracket. The card itself has worked in my limited use so far with no issues. It's pretty straight forward plug 'n play really. Plug card in, attach the SAS to SATA breakout cable and hook the SATA ends to your drives and Bob's your proverbial uncle. I would suggest using this card in a case with some airflow over the card as I have read it can get quite warm under heavy use. Other than that, all I can say is that to me, this card was well worth the money since I couldn't find anything similar available to me locally that didn't cost perhaps twice as much.

works as expected. No issues on a supermicro server motherboard.

Wish I bought one of these originally for my unraid server instead of getting a cheap 8 port sata expansion that caused me many headaches. Having no issues with this card after many months running continuously in my nas.

My use for this was to utilize a hand full of SAS drives I acquired with my windows machine. Had a little trouble getting windows 11 to recognize the HBA, thankfully nothing too complicated. There's no official windows 10/11 driver for it so you need to use the latest windows server 2019 drivers and after a reboot, the card is detected. Also....Grab yourself a 40mm fan to go with this card. This thing runs HOT. A couple 120mm fans blowing air over it does a poor job. At idle this card runs around the low 70c mark. Once you put on any sort of load it easily hits a little over 100c. with a fan directly attached to the heatsink, I'm comfortably around 40c at idle and 70c under full load.

Excellent card for TrueNAS

Installation was easy

I purchased this card for installation in my new rackmount server chassis to enable the 8 drive hot swap backplane. It was a pleasant surprise that the card worked fine out of the box without having to mess with the firmware. I swapped the bracket to the included low profile bracket and it fit my case and motherboard perfectly. My server has been up and running for 160 days now without incident and the drives are performing flawlessly. I have used the hot swap capabilities to upgrade a couple of the drives and everything worked correctly. I ordered the wrong cables initially, so be sure you double check what cables you need. This card needs SFF-8643 cables.

The 9300-8i has been successfully installed in our Supermicro X11-DPINT and it works great with ESXi v7. Note, the previous gen 9207-8i is NOT compatible with ESXi v7. Get this 9300-8i if upgrading to ESXi v7

The order was delayed a bit, but it is expected as it comes from outside India. But the product was working good. I posted questions to seller, he responded on time. Overall it was good experience. I got my product in about 15 days.

Used in custom build for unraid. Worked out of the box. Didnt need to reflash or anything. Replaced a marvell based card that was throwing udma crc errors. Working perfectly at the moment, fingers crossed!

Very old firmware on the card, had to flash to latest. After that only works correctly with HDD, not with SSD's

Working as expected no issue for more than 3 months, I appreciate it if you can add an integrated cooling fan.

マザーボードのSATAポートが足りない状況で、Adaptec 1100-4iと迷いました。 しかし、色々探し回ると9300-8iのこちらの方が値段的にお得感があったので、購入に至りました。 性能も十分かなと思っています。