I went ahead and purchased a LSI 9207-8i, I am going to have to flash it when it arrives. (Anyone offer some guidance on that, it appears without a UEFI BIOS it is not possible am I correct on that?)
I went with the 9207 simply because its chipset (the 2308) is PCIe 3.0 compatible which is theoretically capable of 7.5GB/s. The LSI 2308 chipset can deliver 750MB/s across 8 lanes so that equals 6GB/s. The Dell h200 & 310 have the 2008 chipset which is only PCIe 2.0 which is only capable of 4GB/s. The LSI 3008 chipset is way overkill, it can handle 12GB/s but is only PCIe 3.0 which only handles 7.5GB/s so the PCI lanes are a huge bottle neck, you are only able to use a little over half the card, I suppose you could use the full 12GB/s bandwidth if transferring data directly between disks...???
I had an old t300 server sitting around with a 4 bay hot swap cage, dual PS, 24GB Ram, and a decent XEON processor. I would imagine it will hold up a bit longer till I can get some funds in place to do this right, I was looking at getting a newer Dell 320 or something along those line to replace it in Q1 of 2020..