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>An old LSI HBA can run a lot of drives.
You're talking about an 8e or 16e card, those disk shelves break out the lanes and switch them so you can add gobs of spindles
What RAID config are you runnin?
Is it TrueNAS?
I just sold my 22TB HDD's to buy more u.2's since I have xeon scalable servers with hot swap U.2/U.3 backplanes that pack 12 drives in 1 U
For the house, I run RAIDZ1 of 3x 8TB U.2's
For this streaming site I am starting, it's RAIDZ2 of 6x 4TB U.2's since random iops is more important than total capacity and if it takes off, I can add more in the empty slots.
Probably gonna run Intel GPU's for media encoding.
Pic related is the old version of my current server stack