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    HighPoint SSD7540 PCIe 4.0 x16 8-Port M.2 NVMe Card - Thoughts?

    jpmomo: Agree 100%. The ARECA cards are based on the same Broadcom chip ( SAS3916 ) as the LSI 9560-series cards, and I wish they were full PCI 4.0 x16 cards.
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    HighPoint SSD7540 PCIe 4.0 x16 8-Port M.2 NVMe Card - Thoughts?

    I'm a little surprised we haven't seen any reviews of Areca's NVMe RAID cards. The specs look pretty sweet: https://www.areca.com.tw/products/nvme-1886.html What I'm not sure about (besides actual performance) is why NVMe slots 1 and 2 can operate in 4x mode while the other slots do 2x. Does...
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    PCIe 4.0 HBA's?

    For some reason it keeps getting detected as "potentially spam" even though I am a human being... so I created an account. Hopefully that will let me ask :) I want an LSI card for FreeNAS that will last a while, and that'd be a 9500 series card. Would love to see some benchmarks before I buy...