Legit Reviews tested the Adaptec RAID 3805 8-port SATA and SAS Controller with 8 Western Digital Raptor drivers in 11 RAID configurations on LinuxRaid10 performance was a little surprising. having 4 drives in raid10 is slightly faster than just 2 in raid0. This is likely just some experimental error. The Raid10-8 configuration however does significantly lag behind a straight raid0-4 setup. Apparently writing to all the mirrors swamped the card a bit. The space consumed by raid0-4 and raid10-8 is identical. How important is your data?
Adaptec RAID 3805 8-port SATA and SAS Controller Review- However the Adaptec RAID controller driver downloads also include an 'adpenc' INF and a related CAT file for the supported Windows OSes that can be loaded optionally for this management device to 'cosmetically' move the enclosure device into the System Device section of Device Manager.
- Install Adaptec UN RAID P460-M4 Controller driver for Windows 10 x64, or download DriverPack Solution software for automatic driver installation and update.
Adaptec Raid Controller
PMC Adaptec HBA 1000-8i. 8 internal ports, low-profile/MD2 form factor, PCI-Express (PCIe Gen 3 8x) Host Bus Adapter (HBA) running the latest unified Smart storage stack, provides economical non-RAID I/O SAS and SATA connectivity with hard disk, tape, solid state drives, expanders and backplanes at up to 12Gb/s SAS data rates using mini-SAS HD connectors.