Lemon tree SAS HBA Card with SATA Cables for LSI 9300-8i

This kit answers the classic first-NAS stumble: ordering the HBA and discovering on assembly day that the cables were never in the box. Lemon tree bundles its LSI 9300-8i-compatible card — SAS3008 controller, HBA IT mode firmware — with two SFF-8643-to-SATA breakout cables, so a SATA-drive build wires up the day the package arrives. The IT mode configuration is the draw for the software-storage crowd: ZFS, TrueNAS and FreeNAS, unRAID, Proxmox, and ESXi all want raw drive passthrough, and non-RAID firmware provides it.

Card specifics track the 9300-8i reference: PCIe 3.0 x8 on the host side, two internal SFF-8643 connectors feeding up to eight direct-attached drives at 12Gb/s SAS or 6Gb/s SATA, and SAS expander support when the array outgrows the chassis. The maker is unusually direct about the bundle's limits — the included cables suit SATA drives only, and SAS disks need SFF-8643 to SFF-8482 cables sold separately or the matched HBA-plus-cable kit. That candor is useful: it makes this configuration the right pick for the most common build (desktop SATA disks in a home NAS) and the wrong shortcut for SAS-based arrays. Within its lane, it is the convenient version of a thoroughly proven formula.