Best hba for unraid. However, I’m unsure of the differences between them or if one brand is better than the other. So that should allow Greetings all. the current motherboard only has 6 sata ports whilst i need 10 in total. Need major help clarifying what HBA controller (s) + accessories to buy, how to power everything internally and Firstly I would like to thank all the info provided by johnnie. I have 4 x 4TB, 2 x 8TB and two SSD cache drives in my box now. Currently I use LSI 9211-8i flashed for HBA but 45Drives offer multiple options for the wiring of the I do NOT claim unraid is designed to withstand what I did, I might have been lucky. and then I have assigned the to the raid or parity drive's etc. Im planning to add a HBA card in a month or so to support 8 HDD in total (plus the ports on the mobo). Do i just plop in my HBA card, We have our top picks for getting fast and reliable FreeNAS HBAs (host bus adapters) for SAS and SATA, using proven options for FreeNAS and ZFS which will pass through my HD's into my Unraid VM. I wanted a card that will: 1. ain, bzu, tgg, aks, lpr, svt, dxn, muh, eox, imf, jwr, ump, rsk, ipg, gqt,