Recommended HBA for ZFS, contemporary

[Mike]

On 8/22/2016 2:36 PM, Karl Denninger wrote:
> On 8/22/2016 13:34, Mike wrote:
>> On 8/22/2016 12:18 PM, Ben RUBSON wrote:
>>>> On 22 Aug 2016, at 18:14, InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter <juergen.gotteswinter at internetx.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> LSI SAS 2008 Based HBA, there are dozens of OEM available for Budget Prices
>>> With the IT firmware.
>>
>> What's the significance of "IT firmware"?
>>
>>
> It's (slightly) faster, provided you don't turn on any of the other
> stuff (which is always dumb with these adapters.)
Does it come with the HBA board(s), needs to be purchased or downloaded
separately?

Total noob here who wants to move my ZFS server disks off the
motherboard SATA ports.  :)