LSI Logic LSI00197 4-Port SAS RAID Controller. SAS9260-4I SGL RAID 4PORT INT 6GB SAS/SATA PCIE 2.0 512MB COMB-C. 512MB DDR SDRAM - PCI Express x8 - 1 x SFF-8087 - Mini-SAS

this is an unboxing that I've been excited to do for a while this is an LSI mega raid SAS 9268 I read controller card so this is exciting because it is a six gigabit per second eight port SAS and SATA raid card so what that means is you've actually got full support for either SAS or SATA drives and either three gigabit per second or six gigabit per second so it's one of the most flexible raid cards out there today now the difference between SAS and SATA I've actually been asked this before SAS are basically enterprise level drives and SATA are consumer level drives you can run a SATA Drive on a SAS interface card but you cannot run a SAS drive on a SATA interface like what you would find built into a motherboard so there that is the difference here we're gonna find the product specifications in brief so I'm gonna go ahead and scan these for you so you can read them if you really want it