{"product_id":"lemon-tree-lsi-9305-16i-it-mode-16-port-sas-hba-card","title":"Lemon Tree LSI 9305-16i IT Mode 16-Port SAS HBA Card","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Lemon Tree SAS HBA card is built around the LSI 9305-16i design with an SAS3224 controller, giving storage builders a 16-port internal host bus adapter for connecting drives directly to a motherboard's PCIe slot. It ships pre-configured in IT Mode, meaning it presents each attached disk to the operating system individually rather than hiding them behind a hardware RAID layer. That makes it a natural fit for software-defined storage stacks where the filesystem, not the card, manages redundancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhysically, the card uses a PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface and carries four internal SFF-8643 connectors, each capable of fanning out to four drives for a total of 16 direct connections. Transfer rates reach 12Gb\/s for SAS drives and 6Gb\/s for SATA, and the design supports expansion beyond 16 drives when paired with a compatible SAS expander. It's positioned squarely at home-lab and NAS enthusiasts running ZFS, TrueNAS, unRAID, Proxmox, or ESXi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe package includes the HBA card plus four SFF-8643 to 4x SATA breakout cables, so a SATA-based build can come together out of the box. Worth noting: those bundled cables work only with SATA drives. Anyone planning to attach SAS drives will need separate SFF-8643 to SFF-8482 cables or the vendor's matched HBA-and-cable kit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lemon tree","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53765820449075,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/studio-supplies.com\/products\/lemon-tree-lsi-9305-16i-it-mode-16-port-sas-hba-card","provider":"Studio Supplies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}