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

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 The included CD is pretty badly out of date and the documentation isn't super helpful, but it was all included as was the low profile bracket.The card itself has worked in my limited use so far with no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.

Attention matériel en provenance d’Angleterre, ce qui signifie que vous devrez payer une taxe supplémentaire, alors que rien n'est indiqué dans l'annonce. Du coup le prix n'est pas intéressant.

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。