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Thank you. As 9300 supports pcie-3.0, I decided to take just one 9300-16i. It also seems to have a bigger heatsink, which is nice. Upd: bought it.

I would give it a try. I will just add some active cooling if the controller you would recommend will overheat too.

Hi, I need an advice. I bought 16 wd red plus HDDs, 4 SSDs and a meshify 2 xl case which has space for all my drives in storage layout. I wanted to make a fast and very big HDD storage for my PC, using windows Storage Spaces in RAID10 mode with ReFS file system, but I soon found out that my 2 Adaptec 7805 raid controllers are HOT. Like, 115 C° in HBA mode. I can return it to Amazon because they also didn't had cables listed in their description, but now I need to pick another 2 8i raid or HBA/IT controllers. Ones that aren't super hot. Could you please recommend me a RAID/IT/HBA controller with 2 internal SAS ports (usually marked as 8i) which has a reasonable price and can work in a normal PC case with 6 fans on like 1000-1200 RPM staying at least under 100 C°?