{"product_id":"lemon-tree-lsi-9300-8i-it-mode-8-port-sas-hba-card","title":"Lemon tree LSI 9300-8i IT Mode 8-Port SAS HBA Card","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Lemon tree SAS HBA card is a storage controller compatible with the LSI 9300-8i and built around the SAS3008 chip. It ships flashed in HBA IT mode — non-RAID firmware that passes drives straight through to the operating system, exactly what software-defined storage stacks expect. That makes it a natural fit for ZFS, FreeNAS\/TrueNAS, unRAID, Proxmox, and ESXi home-lab and NAS builds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnectivity centers on two internal SFF-8643 connectors and a PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface. The card supports 12Gb\/s SAS or 6Gb\/s SATA data rates and can direct-attach up to eight drives, with room to grow further through a compatible SAS expander. That combination gives builders a straightforward path to wiring a stack of disks to a single card without leaning on motherboard SATA ports.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne detail deserves attention before checkout: the two SFF-8643 to SATA cables in the box are for SATA drives only and will not work with SAS drives. Connecting SAS drives requires SFF-8643 to SFF-8482 cables, sold separately, or a matched HBA-plus-cable kit. For anyone assembling a NAS or home lab around SATA disks, though, the bundled cables mean the card is ready to wire up out of the box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lemon tree","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53694897914163,"sku":null,"price":76.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7526\/5843\/files\/414DO_DkvdL._SL500_45ecb634-bfcf-48c3-aff3-1e5e0b5f3bd9.jpg?v=1784699890","url":"https:\/\/studio-supplies.com\/products\/lemon-tree-lsi-9300-8i-it-mode-8-port-sas-hba-card","provider":"Studio Supplies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}