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I just bought a cheap white box to get things moving.... And TIL that if you have 4 x SATA ports on a motherboard, but actually try to use them at the same time as the onboard M2 SATA slot.... it will disable one of those 4 x SATA ports.
My HTPC is a white box too, but uses a dedicated SATA card for 8 x 3.5" HDDs, leaving the onboard stuff for the M2 and a second SSD for cache.
Off to Amazon to buy the cheapest China spec controller I can lol.