M&M
Flawless IT Mode Performance! Perfect for TrueNAS
If you are expanding your home server or building a custom NAS (Network Attached Storage), this HBA (Host Bus Adapter) card is exactly what you need. I picked this up to expand my drive capacity, and it has performed flawlessly. The absolute best part about this card is that it comes pre-flashed to true IT Mode (Initiator Target Mode). You don't have to go through the massive headache of creating bootable USB drives or fighting with motherboard UEFI settings just to wipe a RAID BIOS—it works right out of the box. My OS recognized the card immediately, giving it direct, unhindered access to the drives for smart monitoring and pooling. The 8-port capacity (via two SFF-8087 connectors) provides tons of room for expansion, allowing you to run a mix of enterprise SAS or standard consumer SATA drives. Thermals stay perfectly stable under continuous heavy read/write loads, and the PCIe interface ensures maximum bandwidth across all connected drives with zero throttling. The build quality is rock-solid, it includes both full-height and low-profile brackets, and it delivers enterprise-grade data throughput and hardware longevity at a fraction of the cost. If you need a reliable, hassle-free SATA/SAS expansion card for a storage server build, this is an easy 5-star recommendation