Then I had my old PC and it was very good but I wanted more nvme disks and motherboard supported only 7.
Now I am migrating to threadripper which is a bit overkill but I will have ability to run 1 or two GPUs along with 23 nvme disks for example.
There are other cards like that i.e. https://global.icydock.com/product_323.html This one have better support for smaller in size disks, much easier to swap disk but costs like 4 times more.
I think it could put even more drives in my new case I.e. using pcie to u2 card and the using 8 drives bays. But this would cost me probably like 3 times more just for the bay with connectors. and I do not need that much space.
https://global.icydock.com/product_363.html
If you like u2 drives then icydock provides solution for them too. Or if you want go cheaper there are other cards with slim-sas or mcio https://www.microsatacables.com/4-port-pcie-3-0-x16-to-u-2-s...
But u2 disks are at least 2 times more costly per GB. Like 40tb costs 10k$. This is too much IMO.
Intel n100 with 32GB RAM and single big SSD here (but with daily backups).
Eats roughly 10 Watts and does the job.
I did use my old PC and it was working very nice with 4 sata ssds, in raid 10.
And as I already said on other comment - in my case power does not matter much. Space too.