Broadcom eHBA 9600W-16e Tri-Mode Storage Adapter
PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 Wide-Port Tri-Mode SAS/SATA/NVMe eHBA (16 external ports)
Product Category
Broadcom eHBA 9600W-16e Tri-Mode Storage Adapter
Port Count
16 external
Connectors
Four x4 SFF-8674 (Ext Mini HD)
Host Interface
x16 PCIe Gen 4.0 (wide-port)
Storage Interface
22.5/12/6Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SATA, Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe)
Product Description
The Broadcom eHBA 9600W-16e is the external, wide-port member of the 9600 series Tri-Mode host bus adapter family, designed to connect servers to large external SAS/SATA/NVMe storage enclosures at maximum bandwidth. Built on Broadcom's SAS4016W I/O Controller (IOC), the 9600W-16e runs a wide x16 PCIe Gen 4.0 host interface — double the lane count of the standard 9600-16e — feeding four external x4 SFF-8674 (Ext Mini HD) connectors for 16 external ports. Like the rest of the 9600 eHBA line, it operates in pure IT mode with no onboard RAID, cache or CacheVault, passing drives directly through to the OS, hypervisor or SDS stack. Tri-Mode SerDes technology allows NVMe, SAS and SATA devices to operate concurrently through the same JBOD, and the adapter supports up to 240 SAS/SATA or 32 NVMe devices. Hardware Secure Boot, SPDM attestation and SafeStore SED key management round out its security features.