I’m looking at some common desktop motherboards and a lot of them only have like 2 or 4 SATA ports.
How do people connect 10 hard drive disks to something like this? Or do I have to purchase an Enterprise Server Motherboard to support this use case?
I’m trying to build my own NAS/media center and I want a ton of storage.
An HBA does not need to be flashed. A RAID controller does, so that it performs as an HBA and not a RAID controller.