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These cards are designed for high-airflow servers. In a home PC case, they get very hot; many users zip-tie a small fan to the heatsink to prevent crashing. buy hba
In the world of home servers (like Unraid or TrueNAS), an HBA is a PCIe card that allows you to connect more hard drives than your motherboard supports. LSI (now Broadcom) chips are the gold standard