I’m looking at some common desktop motherboards and a lot of them only have like 2 or 4 SATA ports. (But do have other M.2 or PCIe slots.)

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.

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    An HBA does not need to be flashed. A RAID controller does, so that it performs as an HBA and not a RAID controller.