Will appeal to a small crowd, but if you're in need of a single RAID card for 15 or 16 bays with a non-expander backplane, the card and four cables come out to around $50. Listings indicate sale price it good for another 2 days (same seller for both).
ADAPTEC ASR-71605 PCIe SAS RAID CONTROLLER | eBay
Mini SAS SFF-8643 to 4 SATA 7-pin hard 3/6/12Gbps data Server RAID 1M LSI00411 830343003174 | eBay
Note: This is the RAID version, which reportedly doesn't play well with FreeNas, etc. Listing indicates shipping to US only.
ADAPTEC ASR-71605 PCIe SAS RAID CONTROLLER | eBay
Mini SAS SFF-8643 to 4 SATA 7-pin hard 3/6/12Gbps data Server RAID 1M LSI00411 830343003174 | eBay
Note: This is the RAID version, which reportedly doesn't play well with FreeNas, etc. Listing indicates shipping to US only.
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