Recommended controllers for Unraid
This thread is meant to replace the now outdated old one about recommended controllers, these are some controllers known to be generally reliable with Unraid:
Note: RAID controllers are not recommended for Unraid, this includes all LSI MegaRAID models, doesn't mean they cannot be used but there could be various issues because of that, like no SMART info and/or temps being displayed, disks not being recognized by Unraid if the controller is replaced with a different model, and in some
I bought "Die-Wu ASM1166 6 port SATA PCIEx2 adapter from aliexpress" it has red heatsink and red SATA ports on back of card.
In mean time ordered ECS06 just in case and to be honest it's not always an easy task to upgrade this ASM1166.
Even with SilverStone I had couple failes when software didn't recognize my card properly, found out that I already had latest firmware on ECS06 but flashed in anyway - if there are any problems just start flashing software once again until it'll s
