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>Which would take 24 PCIe lanes since LSI/Broadcom caps at 16 drives per card
What are you talking about. An old LSI HBA can run a lot of drives. I think my old one can run 128 drives and runs fine on pcie 3.0 4x.
I could add another shelve and have 72 drives on one cable and it would run fine. It's just my backup system with old drives.