I mentioned the BBWC because the first few links I found to buy the card didn't include it. Nice to see firmware available - in 2014 HP started requiring suppo

I mentioned the BBWC because the first few links I found to buy the card didn't include it. Nice to see firmware available - in 2014 HP started requiring support contracts or warranties to download firmware updates for the servers which really turned me off them. I didn't realise RAID firmware wasn't included in that (for some reason iLO firmware isn't either, but I think that's probably because it includes OSS). For this reason alone I'd avoid HP on principal. I'm hoping one day I can find a reasonably cheap RAID card that still supports using hte BBWC in JBOD mode...