Listed for sale here is a Dell JBOD 24-internal + 12-external lane SAS-2 6Gbps expander board (Dell P/N: N4C2D). It has 6x SFF-8087 ports and 3x SFF-8088 ports that connect to a compatible SAS controller (HBA or RAID). This is an awesome JBOD SAS expander board for building your own JBOD disk enclosure. See the video on my YouTube channel for a demonstration of how this board can be setup.
Included with this SAS expander board is a custom power adapter cable that you will need to use to power on this expander board. The 2x2 pin connector goes into the board, and the 4-pin molex needs to be connected to your power supply (PSU). I have fully tested these units in my server with an LSI external HBA SAS controller running ZFS on Linux. If you need an HBA to go with this, please check out the " HBA IT mode controllers" section of my ebay store.
Feel free to ask any questions.
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