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[Mercutio]

This is somewhat relevant to my interests.
Only 4x U.2s but it comes with a tri-mode HBA and supports 12x 3.5" drives. Skylake Xeons run anywhere from 6 to 28 hyperthreaded cores, are priced reasonably and registered DDR4 isn't crazy expensive any longer.

 

[LunarMist]

Do you really need a 28-core Skylake for 12 magnetic drives? I suppose this will be on a datacenter, not in your home.

 

[Mercutio]

Not at all. But the platform supports astonishing amounts of RAM and I/O. I could even turn off hyperthreading entirely and still have an extremely nice VM host. That system might be a nice overall upgrade for me.