aaronwt

So with the N54L. Am I able to use the built in eSATA port for a 4 bay port multiplier enclosure. And also use a x4 PCI express card to also have four other 4 bay port multiplier enclosures? And also use the four internal drives and also have a fifth drive attached to a card in the x1 PCI express slot? This is my plan anyway. My first unraid build I use five multi bay external enclosures with twenty drives without issue. And my second unRAID build will eventually use a couple as well. But I want my third unRAID build to replace my WHS which currently uses seven, 4 bay, external enclosures. So I would like to use as many of those as possible with the N54L Micro Server. So ideally with the N54L I would like to use five external, 4 bay enclosures, and five internal drives. Is this possible with the N54L Micro Server?

Twenty drives in the external enclosures(four 4 bay and one 5 Bay--one four bay has 3 drives in it). Then I have the cache and parity drive in the 3in2 enclosure in the PC case.

Here are some poor pics of my unRAID setup with my external enclosures.