It's an LSI card, so no particular reason why it wouldn't work. However, actual HBAs are usually preferred because even in JBOD mode not all controller properly passthrough the SMART attributes. Also, when doing this, make sure you label what drive is what. From forum surfing, JBOD mode on the controllers will assign a device ID that is vastly different than what the drive itself reports (ie: instead of ST4000DM-1F82B or similiar it would instead report the drive as a long string of numbers only) Not an issue in and by itself but makes replacing a drive in the eventuality you have to a bit harder if you don't have a reference as to what is what. Can't say for sure if that controller would suffer from these caveats or not.