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Thank you for replying. I'm not familiar with these forums, and I'm trying to reply to your comment. What do you mean by the SATA adapter has to match? The board itself has 6 SATA connectors that I can plug the hard drives directly into.

I just purchased unraid and want to use it on a new build. I want to try out those Aliexpress boards that have lots of sata ports and power efficiency. My uses are simple, mainly file transfer, backups, syncing. The guide I'm following is from Youtube. The board I want to use is this one. However, the comments he states the SATA chip must say "ASMedia" The board I've found says it uses JMB585. I don't know much about Sata controllers and unraid. But which chip should I opt for?

Hi everyone, I just purchased unraid and want to use it on my new NAS. Im following this video. My needs are simple for a NAS, I want reliability and set and forget configuration. It's for file transfer, backups, syncing, and docker containers. My main focus is power efficiency. I won't be doing video transcoding and all that stuff. In the video, or rather in the comments, he recommends that the SATA chip should say "ASMedia". I don't know why as he doesn't explain. I've found a clone or variant of the board here on a deal. If you press view more, the pictures are too blurry to see but one of them says it uses a JMB585 SATA chip. Would this be okay?