I need to stand up a new bare metal box for Ubuntu 16.04LTS using the ZFS file system.
One issue with ZFS is that it needs to talk to the raw disk drives directly. PERC controllers do not allow this even when you expose each drive as a single drive.
I need to know if there is a new Dell rackmount server that has 4-6 plain old SATA ports without going through a PERC controller.
Yes, I could add a separate SATA controller but I'd rather use what Dell has.
Any suggestions?