Drama_Derp

Have confirmed with Gigabyte support. No issues with NVME m.2 SSDs.

I was hoping a pre-owned/IT mode sas controller would be inexpensive and limit the number of days cables needed in Node 304. I'm still trying to confirm with Gigabyte if the m.2 drives turn off any SATA ports. Is there a non sas/hba expansion card you can suggest that would handle 4-6 drives?

This is the 2nd time rebuilding a server from old PC parts but I this time I'm going to figure out a more advanced storage storage solution. I'm looking to mirror/Raid1 a cache drive (Sata or NVMe, not sure) and will be using 4x new 16TB WD Red Pro Drives to start with the option to add 2 more in the case. Server is 90% for Plex (Mostly Local Playback, 2x remote streams max) 10% Shared Family Storage CPU: i5-9600K MOBO: Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI Three questions … What is the best SAS card to keep temperatures down? Should the SSDs in the cache pool be on the same controller as the hard drives? If there are 4 available SATA ports and 2 NVMe slots on the motherboard and the SAS card and accommodate up to 8 drives, what is the most stable configurations of Parity, Cache, and Remaining storage drives?