Help for more sata Ports

[Wuast94]

Im searching for a way to expand my sata Ports. Pci express to sata seems the way to go. I tried to understand what I should buy but I am confused.

 

Some cards are slow on pci (1x 2x 3x express etc) 

Sata 2/3 (woukd like 3 for future) 

Max capacity (I don't like limits. Im using 8tb hdds) 

Unraid compatible (some work. Some needs flashing (how?). Some are limited in anyway) 

Price (as low as possible😜) 

Ports (min 8 sata ports I think) 

 

And why raid controller? I don't want to raid anything..I just want to get more sata ports for more hdds in unraid without buying a new board/cpu/ram 

 

I hope anyone can help me to see clearly in this. 

[mrbilky]

49 minutes ago, Wuast94 said:

Im searching for a way to expand my sata Ports. Pci express to sata seems the way to go. I tried to understand what I should buy but I am confused.

 

Some cards are slow on pci (1x 2x 3x express etc) 

Sata 2/3 (woukd like 3 for future) 

Max capacity (I don't like limits. Im using 8tb hdds) 

Unraid compatible (some work. Some needs flashing (how?). Some are limited in anyway) 

Price (as low as possible😜) 

Ports (min 8 sata ports I think) 

 

And why raid controller? I don't want to raid anything..I just want to get more sata ports for more hdds in unraid without buying a new board/cpu/ram 

 

I hope anyone can help me to see clearly in this. 

I bought this on ebay was plug and play it must be flashed to IT mode but that was done by the seller I put it in my x16 slot at 8x works without issues gives me 8 sata ports via 2 SFF-8087 connectors,

 

Dell H310 6Gbps SAS HBA w/ LSI 9211-8i P20 IT Mode for ZFS FreeNAS unRAID