2 port Asmedia is fine, any Asmedia with more than 2 ports is using SATA port multipliers and that is no good.
If 4/5 ports are enough look for a JMB585 based controller, for 8 ports look for any LSI with a SAS2008/2308/3008/3408 chipset in IT mode, e.g., 9201-8i, 9211-8i, 9207-8i, 9300-8i, 9400-8i, etc and clones, like the Dell H200/H310 and IBM M1015, these latter ones need to be crossflashed.