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It looks to be the best option. I got the LSI card for secondary project, but haven't tested it. I had the H200E's and didn't have any plans for them so I figured I would test it. I'm swapping out all my old 4TB drives from the server and switching to the Diskshelf with 8TB drives, I'm now on disk 2 of 8 and it's been stable so far. The PM8003 was dropping the drives right after the rebuild. So I'd think everything was good, and then I would leave it for an hour and the drive suddenly wasn't attached anymore. The first time I noticed I got half way through the rebuild on the second drive and they both dropped out. Because I am migrating to the Disk shelf I had the old drives in the server still so I was able to just clear the config and change the drive back to the original drive. Hopefully anyone else who may have these issues reads through this and saves themselves some money. It's a great solution if you get the right HBA.

Just an update to others who may have similar issues. I bought a server for another storage server that came with 2 H200E dell external HBA's. After flashing them to IT Mode this seems to have resolved the issues. I tried updating to 6.9.2 and the PM8003 still wasn't discovered and I was having a ton of reliability issues with it with the drives dropping out. You will also need a different DAC you will need a SFF-8436 to SFF-8088

I did experience the same issue as the others. Fought with the shelf for a few hours and after rolling back to 6.8.3 everything came back up. I tried swapping the IOM modules around, Moving the HBA card to a different PCI-E slot, replacing the qsfp cable, pulling all drives. Trying drives with and without interposers. Swapped the PSU's as one of mine appear to be dead anyways. None of it was able to restore drives on the new version of Unraid. But the second I rolled unraid back the drives were working again. Given I just setup the disk shelf a couple of days ago I thought the HBA or Shelf may have had something wrong with them. But it looks like Tigerherz may be correct with the driver issue. I imagine there's a way to downgrade the driver in 6.9.0 if others continue to experience the same issues.