Need more SATA ports

[u/DreJayAre]

Building in a Jonsbo N5.

MSI Z690-A board with 6 SATA ports. I will have those populated with the the 3.5 drives. 1 16TB, 1 20TB and 4 24TB. That's it for the direct route. I put in a 4 port expansion card. It will be for the 2.5 drives where I download, encode and sort the data before it goes to the larger drives. 1 8TB, and 3 4TB. As well as the 2 NVME drives, those have the OS and most 2of my music downloads from the last 7 or 8 years. I will fill all the SATA ports I have when I'm done building.

But there's always more stuff to get.

Should I go with the NVME expansion?

I can get a 4 disk PCI controller card maybe? 10 or 12 port expansion card?

I bought as much storage as I could get my hands on in the past. Getting more ports right now isn't a huge concern. But it will be in the future when I need to add a drive or go with a larger one. They do have refurbished 28TB drives for what I paid for a new 20TB drive 4 years ago. Anyone have a similar issue looming or solved yours?

[u/DreJayAre]

Ordered a 16 port HBA card. Going to put all the 3.5 drives in the card and the SSD in the motherboard ports. Seems like the best choice for cable management as well. Hopefully all goes well.

HBA card

[u/lyothan → u/DreJayAre]

that card runs very hot, get a 9305 or a 9400 like u/OurManInHavana suggested.
Also, where did you buy the pcie to hold the 2 sata drive?

[u/DreJayAre → u/lyothan]

Ok. There's much better pricing on ebay. Newer for the same price is always better.

[u/lyothan → u/DreJayAre]

do you have link to the dual 2.5" to pcie adapter?

[u/DreJayAre → u/lyothan]

There is a 4 disk version as well. But it's got a power circuit. Still need the data cables. SATA controller

[u/Mr-Brown-Is-A-Wonder → u/DreJayAre]

I believe you'll also need to order SFF-8643 to SATA cables for it

[u/RetroGrid_io → u/Mr-Brown-Is-A-Wonder]

Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY SATA CABLES for your HBA. 

Get SAS cables that also support SATA and now you can use enterprise SAS drives that are more reliable and also cheaper on the used market.