The Broadcom HBA 9500-16e Tri-Mode is an external host bus adapter for professional server and enterprise storage environments. The manufacturer part number is 05-50075-00, and the EAN is 0830343007516. The adapter provides 16 external ports and is designed to connect external storage enclosures, JBODs, and server storage solutions.

Thanks to Tri-Mode support, the controller can access SAS, SATA, and PCIe NVMe drives in compatible systems. It features a PCI Express 4.0 x8 host interface and supports SAS data rates of up to 12 Gb/s, SATA data rates of up to 6 Gb/s, and PCIe Gen 4.0 for NVMe drives.

The HBA 9500-16e uses four external Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644 x4 connectors. With suitable backplanes and SAS expanders, up to 1,024 SAS/SATA devices or up to 32 NVMe devices can be connected. The actual maximum number depends on the cabling, storage expander, backplane, and server configuration.

The adapter is designed for HBA operation and does not provide hardware RAID functionality. It supports Universal Bay Management (UBM), hardware secure boot, and management via LSI Storage Authority, StorCLI, and HII.