Broadcom eHBA 9600-16e Tri-Mode Storage Adapter
PCIe Gen 4.0 x8 Tri-Mode SAS/SATA/NVMe eHBA (16 external ports)
Product Category
Broadcom eHBA 9600-16e Tri-Mode Storage Adapter
Port Count
16 external
Connectors
4 x4 SFF-8674 (Mini SAS HD)
Host Interface
x8 PCIe Gen 4.0
Storage Interface
22.5, 12, 6Gb/s SAS
Product Description
The Broadcom eHBA 9600-16e is a PCIe Gen 4.0 host bus adapter from the 9600 series, built on Broadcom's 8th-generation SAS4016 Tri-Mode I/O Controller (IOC). Unlike a MegaRAID controller, the 9600-16e ships in IT mode as a pure pass-through adapter, presenting each attached SAS, SATA or NVMe device directly to the host operating system, hypervisor or software-defined storage (SDS) stack without a hardware RAID layer. Sixteen external 24G SAS ports are delivered through four x4 SFF-8674 (Mini SAS HD) connectors, and Broadcom Tri-Mode SerDes technology lets NVMe, SAS and SATA drives operate concurrently through the same ports, negotiating protocol and speed automatically per device. Designed for high-connectivity external JBOD/JBOF storage enclosures and large-scale server storage expansion, the adapter is compatible with SFF-8639 (U.2) backplanes and is Universal Backplane Management (UBM, SFF-TA-1005) ready for straightforward migration to U.3 infrastructure, while hardware secure boot and device attestation protect firmware integrity.