Skidmark Saint

Thank you much. I was so laser focused on the jbod controller that I completely forgot to look at my current card. Kind of feel stupid but now I know and knowing is half the battle right?

I have a dell c2100 with the PERC6i controller and I have decide to use Unraid for the OS on this server to house plex and use it to handbrake a lot of my movies i have since it is easy to set up watch folders and all that. The issue i have is that i cannot seem to find acontroller to replace the PREC 6i that iwll handle all 12 of the drives i have. I am looking to put in bigger drives as time goes by and will need to pass the 2TB cap that i have right now. i have foudn a lot of discussion and recommendations for the LSI SAS 9210-8i. when looking at this i see it says it can support up to 16 drives but I have yet ben able to find a SFF-8087 to 6 or even 8 SATA connectors. My question is will i need to get 2 of these controllers to be able to see all 12 drives or is there some sort of splitter that i have been unable to find as of yet. I have been searching for almost 3 weeks with no luck so far

I have not decided yet. I can use Linux or windows

I am working on getting all 500+ of my Blurays and DVDs ripped and trans-code for my Plex server. I currently have been using an old Desktop with a AMD 4350 and 4TB of storage. I was able to acquire a couple of servers extremely cheap and want to sue them for the server and to trans-code the files with handbrake. The servers are in the basement and i really don't want to run up and down stairs to swap DVDs. Is there a way to set up the Servers to look for a new file on the desktop then use one of the servers to encode the file and deposit on the other? The servers are listed below. I am open to use any OS or virtualization but unsure where to start. TIA Dell PowerEdge R610 Virtualization Server 2.26GHz 12-Core 24GB 146GB PERC6i 6X-146GB HDD Dell PowerEdge C2100 FS12-TY 2x 2.13GHzE 550 12GB-RAM 12x-2TB HDD