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Hi everyone

I'm looking to expand my storage. I have a case capable of 8 bays and I don't think I'll exceed that soon (currently at 3 drives).

I bought a m.2 slot with a bunch of sata ports on it but it doesn't work. I've researched and read an HBA is a much better solution anyway.

If I'm going to get the HBA I might as well run all 8 ports on it.

Aside from the clearance on the card in the case, are there any other considerations I need to he aware of? I justbeant to get something that works from the get go. For my uses I have a good amount of apps and I stream media from the server

CPU- i5-10400f 2.90ghz

MOBO - asrock h570m-itx/ac

RAM - gskill f4-3200c16-8gvkb

GPU - Quadro k620 (gm107gl) rev a2

CASE - Jonsbo N3

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[-] philanthropicoctopus 3 points 15 hours ago

Great thank you

Will thus work for zfs truenas aswell

[-] happy_wheels@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 15 hours ago

LSI has really good compatibility with TrueNAS and any Linux system tbh.

[-] philanthropicoctopus 3 points 14 hours ago

I just about pulled the trigger on it and saw my board only has one pcie which us presently occupied. Back to the drawing board!

[-] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Then it's probably time to switch boards. Anything that will expand drive connections will need a PCIe slot. Using an adapter that goes into an m.2 is probably going to have issues. Using USB based devices is asking for trouble.

[-] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Yep. I'm using one myself.

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