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9306-24i SAS SATA Broadcom LSI AVAGO 12gbps 12gb/s PCIe Adapter card - $270 (Victor Village)
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Price above is per card. Two cards available right now. Will sell separately or together.
If you get both cards at same time, will discount $20 off the total cost.
What flavor of IT mode (jbod) are you into? ZFS, FreeNAS, unRAID, something else? This card connects to a lot of drives, actually 24! If you have a bunch of 22TB drives (bigger drives are available) you can approach 0.5 Petabyte of storage (500 TB). This card of course handles sata and sas drives, and can mix.
You can use any size drives you want, they don't all have to be the same size.
If you are not familiar with IT mode, this card uses a PCIe slot on your mainboard and will pass through drives connected to it to your OS for use as you choose. Any sata or sas drive will work can be different sizes depending on your need / use. Great way to add more drives / space to a system.
This card is has 3 connectors, each attaches to 8 drives, total 24 drives. All 3 connectors are internal and use SFF-8654 type connector (see photos of cable), cables are readily available with a variety of connectors at the other end to suit your preference.
Has large heatsink, and likely designed for high air flow server case. To be safe install only with a fan blowing on this heatsink to keep it cool unless in high air flow case. Comes with low profile bracket with ventilation holes, bracket can be changed with a screwdriver.
With 24 drives attached to this card plus what your motherboard has for sata connections to add to that you could have a pretty amazing amount of storage at you fingertips.
What to do with it? Up to you. With 24 drives available you can hit some rather amazing transfer rates for spinning magnetic drive at a mere fraction of the cost of solid state.
0.5 Petabyte (that's 500 terabytes) of storage that is solid state - well can't bring myself to imagine the cost factors to get that!
On most motherboards you run out of PCIe slots at some point and you need a bigger card.
Space is the final frontier.
Can usually meet same day. Daylight hours only please.
Cash only!! The kind that comes out of an ATM.
No electronic payments, no trades, no checks, no ACH, no money orders, no IOU's.
Keep payment type accepted in mind if you ask me to ship, you cover shipping costs, USPS preferred, then Fed-Ex or UPS. You supply a prepaid shipping label preferred.