10Gtek 12G External PCI-E SAS/SATA HBA Controller Card, Broadcom's SAS 3008, Compatible for SAS 9300-8E

Works perfectly. No need to to replace the BIOS even if you do not want RAID functionality. The production quality is very high, too. I was amazed. I use it with 12 year old motherboard with Intel Core 2 (Sandybridge) CPU. it works well. Works out of the box on Arch Linux. No need any driver

it works well as advertised and it comes in IT mode, its fast and it doesnt get as hot as other say but who knows parity check up is an ordeal with unraid

Excellent, works exactly as expected

I bought this to connect to my SAS backplane with an SFF-8087 cable. I have 4 hot-swappable drives in my custom server build. I bought this card to use in IR mode. At first I couldn't access the card's BIOS due to the fact that I was unable to enable CSM on my motherboard (Intel processors disable the ability to enable CSM when using integrated graphics). I needed BIOS access as I planned on booting from one of the logical arrays from this card. I ended up finding a newer firmware and EFI BIOS on Broadcom's website for this card. I booted my server from an EFI USB flash drive and used the SAS2Flash utility to flash the newer P20 firmware and BIOS, and the card then showed up in my motherboard BIOS as a peripheral. From there I was able to configure parameters and create virtual disks etc. I think this card is great for pairing with backplanes as I only needed to hook up a single SFF 8087 cable in order to communicate with four drives. This helps with tidiness and chassis airflow. I've already bought a second 10GTek SAS2008 to build a second identical server.

Tuve serios problemas al actualizar mi servidor de Debian 10 Buster (ya EOL) pasando por varias versiones hasta llegar a Debian 13 Trixie. La controladora antigua dejó de ser reconocida correctamente y los discos conectados a ella no aparecían en el sistema, lo que parecía un problema bastante grave. Decidí probar con esta controladora PCIe SAS/SATA de 10Gtek y la solución fue inmediata: conecté todos los discos a la nueva tarjeta, encendí el servidor… y todo fue reconocido a la primera, sin configuraciones raras ni dolores de cabeza. Aspectos destacados: • Compatibilidad perfecta con Debian moderno. • Reconocimiento inmediato de todos los discos. • Instalación plug & play, sin drivers extra. • Gran relación calidad-precio para servidores domésticos o NAS. • Solución rápida a un problema que parecía crítico. Gracias a esta tarjeta pude recuperar mi sistema en minutos y evitar una reinstalación completa. Si estás montando o actualizando un servidor y quieres una controladora fiable y bien soportada por Linux, esta es una compra muy acertada.