You should be able to find a LSI HBA on the used market for a price that is not much more than your AliExpress card. It's the best way to go.
And if I can beat the Grinch to his own game here, maybe I can sneak two more resources in:
Don't be afraid to be "SAS"-sy - a primer on basic SAS and SATA
With the introduction of SAS 12Gbps, seems like "it's time" to do a braindump on SAS. Work in progress, as usual. History By the late '90's, SCSI and PATA were the dominant technologies to attach disks. Both were parallel bus multiple drop...
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But while you're shopping for those second-hand LSI cards, beware of imitations
This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. Some time ago, forum frequenter @artlessknave kindly sent me a pair of LSI HBA cards that had failed to work out in a FreeNAS build. Having...
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A refurbished LSI card pulled from a used server is far more likely to be genuine - OEM examples include (but are not limited to) the Dell PERC H200/H310, HPE H220, IBM/Lenovo M1015, and Fujitsu D2607.