http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/prod...16i/index.html

this here ^

I'm a lil confused about its purpose.. is it to simply attach 16 HDDs, no RAID?
or MUST you have a LSI RAID controller, & this acts as a way of attaching more HDDs to the RAID controller? (so that the 2 cards work together).

I'm actually hoping that I can simply use it by itself, to attach 16 HDDs, no RAID

TIA!