@D-EJ915, thanks for the suggestion.
@Aesma, I'm not planning on using all drive bays at first. Regardless, from what I've tried to piece together I don't believe I need the SATA ports for anything else other than the OS drives. I think I just need to attach the backplane to the LSI LSI00244...
Build Purpose:
I'm currently working on a new files server build that will replace an PE2950 FreeBSD 8 ZFS used as a file server to house music, videos, and other files. I've just about ran out of space and am looking to build something to fix that for some time. I'm planning on going with...