Broadcom LSI 9207-8i LSI00301 PCIe 3.0 x8 SAS2308 8 Internal Ports 6Gb/s SAS+SATA Host Bus Adapter 5 1

9207-8i

I have a Windows Server box that I use for a backup AD controller and as a Storage Space backup for some of my other servers. My board only has a few SATA ports, and my case has a ton of bays for drives. This and a brake out cable lets me add 8 drives to that system and build a couple 4 drive Storage Spaces parity arrays (basically RAID 5). The lack of any hardware RAID makes things easier for me (no need to reflash). Eventually I'll probably put in a FreeNAS box, but for now it works great in Windows Server.

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