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.... I''m learning as I go here, but as far as I''ve been able to determine, the basic choices for attaching drives seem to be 1) SATA Port multipliers 2) SAS Multilane Enclosures 3) SAS Expanders In option 1, the controller can only talk to one device at a time, in option 2 each miniSAS connector can talk to 4 drives at a time but in option 3 the expander can allow for communication with up to 128 drives. I''m thinking about having ~8-16 drives on each controller (PCI-e card) so I think I want option 3. Additionally, because I might get greedier in the future and decid...