Dell Cloudedge C6100 LSI 9265-8I Controller Card 95T7K

hi everyone and welcome to new egg TV my name is Paul and today I'm going to be doing an unboxing and overview of this add-on RAID controller card from LSI this is the mega raid SAS 9265 - 8i we're going to start off with a closer look at the retail box and also a bit of an explanation for folks who might not be as familiar with raid or add-on RAID controller cards now this is sort of an in-between solution there are folks who are home users who are more along the enthusiast level who might be interested in an add-on raid card such as this one but it also definitely meshes over into the enterprise market as well but let's start out from the basics raid what is raid raid stands for redundant array of independent disks basically the idea is that you take a set of SSDs or mechanical hard drives you combine them all together and you can get redundancy solutions you can also get performance