This is how I do it. I have all my media on a raid 5 tho. Broken hdds are unavoidable in the long run, so I want protection for that. If something goes sideways at rebuilding, so be it. Most of the movies and shows I’m wondering what I save them for anyways. My music collection is worth more to me and backed up properly. Same goes for my personal stuff.

I like that it adds everything into one post instead of replying a dozen times. Good work.

Wait, isn’t a pcie sata card a HBA by design?

Check their documentation, should be all there you need.