Almost too good to be true but the seller has all positive feedback dating back few years. I recently bought stuff from the seller and have a good experience. That is $50 / per card shipped for a 12GB 8e card. If someone is looking for a true 12Gbps RAID with ext ports, this is a steal.
NEW sealed Qty 4 Lenovo SERVERAID M5225 2GB SAS/SATA RAID CTRL 00AE938 IBM sys-x | eBay
ServeRAID M5225-2GB External SAS/SATA Controller > Lenovo Press
This is based on 3108 chip and here is a thread reg JBOD config & passing the limited SMART data in FreeNAS forums
LSI 3108 IT Mode
NEW sealed Qty 4 Lenovo SERVERAID M5225 2GB SAS/SATA RAID CTRL 00AE938 IBM sys-x | eBay
ServeRAID M5225-2GB External SAS/SATA Controller > Lenovo Press
This is based on 3108 chip and here is a thread reg JBOD config & passing the limited SMART data in FreeNAS forums
LSI 3108 IT Mode