Quote Originally Posted by IanB View Post
Huh? Do you ask if a new hard drive supports a specific RAID controller? The SATA standard should be plug and play, as long as the controller and drive speak the same dialect there shouldn't ever be any incompatability. Controllers don't need tables of data to speak to every different hard drive make and model, else they'd need to be software-updated every time a new one came out. Same for drives talking to controllers. Do you update drive firmware every time you plug an old drive into a brand new mainboard?

As long as they use a common subset of the available commands and don't do anything unexpected, there should be no problem linking any SATA device with any controller, short of a bug in the implementation somewhere. No explicit "support" is necessary on the drive side. The only issue I can see is that these things return data so fast to the controller that the firmware may not be set up to handle that. That requires support for SSDs on the controller side instead.
No, I got the new Areca 1680ix-16 card, fairly high end, and it didn't support SSDs for boot until the third firmware revision. It handled them fine for a data drive, but wouldn't boot. "SATA standard" doesn't guarantee compatibility.