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I recently purchased a Promise EX8350 as a JBOD card in WHS - theer are a number of used cards becoming available on ebay. I'm using a Giagabyte ga-ep45-ds5 motherboard, 4 x Samsung 1TB disks and 4 x Samsung 1.5TB disks. The EX8350 uses the Windows Storport driver. The promise card loaded...

I have recently acquired a Promise EX8350 RAID card and installed it in my GA-ep45-ds5 mobo running WHS as a means to support a further 8 disks (4 x Samsung 1.5TB; 4 x Samsung 1TB). The card is sitting in the second Gigabyte pci-e x 16 slot (runs x8). I'm using JBOD and the disks show up OK in...

Thanks for the response Yes, I am connecting direct to the disk using the SFF-8087 miniSAS to SATA cables. I don't have a spare PCI-e x8 slot or greater. I currently have a 'cheap' 4x RAID card (see...

I've configured this card in a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5. Despite what Gigabyte say, if you have a PCI-e video card in the first PCI-e x16 slot then the second PCI-e x8 slot isn't reserved just for Crossfire switching but can support a RAID card such as the AOC-SASLP-MV8. But I have had to retain...