I have seen SAS drives for the same price, you should try to get one - but it must be a MSL G3 drive.
Hope this helps!
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Torsten.
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This might be a real challenge to make work and will almost certainly require some creative use of unsupported configurations if you can make it work. As Torsten mentioned the recomendation from HPE would be to get a SAS drive for an MSL.
If there was a 2012 driver for the LSI card sometimes those will work with Server 2016, It often requires forcing the driver to install which is risky but sometimes that is possible. There can be incompatibilities where the driver mostly works but occasionally crashes the system. I've run into a couple of those on Server 2016 with newer SAS and FC drivers, those were extremely unlikely corner cases but they cause me to be wary of Server 2012 drivers on Server 2016.
LSI which is now part of Broadcom would be your best source for information on whether there is some way to get that controller working on Server 2012 and if there is a way to get it working on 2012 the same method may get the controller at least recognized by Server 2016.
The last OS where I tried getting parallel SCSI to work was Server 2008 with an ATTO controller. The ATTO controllers were some of the last to support parallel SCSI but as far as I know Server 2008 was the end of the road for those.
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