Overview: The LSI SAS 9200-8e, dual port, host bus adapter provides high performance connectivity for external JBOD and external RAID enclosures. The LSI SAS 9200-8e provides 8 lanes of 6Gb/s SAS connectivity to 8 lanes of PCI Express 2.0 5Gb/s performance to eliminate bottlenecks. Performance is based on the LSISAS2008 IO controller that highly integrates the latest enhancements in PCI Express and SAS technology. The HBA supports up to 512 SAS 2.0 compliant devices.