Cost-Effective 6Gb/s Storage Expansion Powered by the highly reliable LSI SAS 2008 controller chip, this HBA card delivers stable 6Gb/s data transfer rates per port. It offers the most reliable and budget-friendly solution for extending storage in home servers and home labs.
8 Internal Ports Connectivity Features 2 Mini-SAS (SFF-8087) internal connectors, allowing you to directly connect up to 8 SAS or SATA hard drives (HDD) or Solid State Drives (SSD) without requiring a SAS expander.
Pre-Flashed IT Mode for NAS Fully pre-flashed to IT Mode (Initiator Target / JBOD) for direct drive pass-through. Your OS can access individual drives directly, making it perfectly optimized for ZFS-based systems like TrueNAS Core/Scale, Unraid, OpenMediaVault, and Proxmox.
PCIe 2.0 x8 Host Interface Designed with a PCI-Express 2.0 x8 host interface, ensuring ample bandwidth for standard high-capacity hard drives. Fully backward and forward compatible with PCIe 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 x8 and x16 slots on consumer or enterprise motherboards.
Dual-Profile Brackets Included Package includes both a pre-installed full-profile bracket and an interchangeable low-profile bracket. This guarantees smooth and flexible installation in standard desktop towers, 2U rackmount servers, or compact mini-ITX NAS chassis.