Product ReviewsLSI MegaRAID 9240-4I 4 Port 6Gbps PCIEx8 Low Profile SAS/SATA/RAID Controller Card No Cables
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 Rating: Review Date: 02/20/14  |
Cons: could look nicer but then its not meant for that to begin with
Pros: -solid product-relatively easy to use-price isnt too bad |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/09/12 |
Cons: None.
Pros: Good quality. Comment:
Good product for it's price point. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/04/12 |
Cons: Takes time to setup properly.
Pros: SATA 6GB/SPCI-E 8xWorth every penny Comment:
My main reason in getting this card was so that I can utilize my SSD 6GB/s, since my motherboard only has SATA 2. It took me some time to get it working properly. I went through several $40.00 cards, and all were crappy. I decided to take spend the money to get Sata 3.At first I was not getting Sata 3 speeds, more like sata 1. I had the card in a 4x slot since I had no 8x slot. I was pissed off at the crappy performance of this card. So I decided to put the card in a PCI-E x16, and I instantly got full SATA 3 speeds for my SSD.This card when I installed it was always spitting out the out of memory error and cant load the boot loader, so it would fail loading windows, I have a Gigabyte GA-x58-USB3 motherboard. I updated the BIOS on my motherboard, and it fixed all those issues.Despite some bumps along the road, I highly recommend this card. You won't regret your purchase of this fine product. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/13/11 |
Cons: If you plan on using SATA hard drives, keep in mind that the interface is a mini-SAS port. You need a port expander in order to use it. (mini-SAS to 4 SATA cable). Newbies should get it with the cable included.
Pros: This is a really good controller. If you are a video editor with a 6 core or a dual 4/6 core xeon, you need one of these. Comment:
The biggest issue I had was with 4 1TB hard drives, I benched speeds on raid 0 above 250MB/s, yet when I did a real world file copy test from another raid 0 supporting equal speed, it would drop to even 75MB/s. Don't freak out about that its a setting and firmware thing. Just get the new firmware for it as the stock is an early get SAS/SATA III port and needs a flash to support better performance optimization. THEN create your raid 0's. Also, you need to determine what stripe size you need for your application (larger for video files, smaller for OS typically). But then the catch, you also need to find out what your hard drive likes! Trial and error basically, unless you have already done this and figured that out lol. |
Runs a small raid 5 config for me without problems. nice card for the money