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I’ll throw Broadcom HBAs (personal experiences with the models 9400-8i8e, 9500-16i & P411W-32P) into the mix.

Why?

  • These things officially support Windows and system sleep (S3), both things pleb users like to use

  • User experience reality: System crashes with Bluescreens all around triggered by Broadcom’s drivers and firmware

  • Broadcom doesn’t care to fix them

  • Third-party critique remains pretty small-scale: “LOLz, how dare you use products primarily intended for 24/7 server use on Linux with “consumer-grade” (ignorant term) hardware and pedestrian Windows?!”

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