LSI cards can be run in both RAID mode and passthrough / standard SAS/SATA controller mode for XFS/ZFS/btrfs -- which works wonderfully most of the time and cu

LSI cards can be run in both RAID mode and passthrough / standard SAS/SATA controller mode for XFS/ZFS/btrfs -- which works wonderfully most of the time and cuts down on hw heterogeneity. You will have to use some disk controller or another, your motherboard is not going to have 12/24/36/48/80 SATA ports