I'm building a new NAS and its going to have 16 or 24 drives, but i cant decide on the components, which is why i could use some recommendations.
Primarily its going to be a NAS, but I also want plex on it with 1-3 streams.
What i have laying around is a supermicro X11SSH-LN4F motherboard with a i3-6300T cpu, a 500w psu and a 24 bay narco case (which i might sell for one with fewer bays).
The motherboard has a free pci-e 3.0 x8 slot for a HBA card, the rest is going to be occupied by a nvm cache ssd and a dual sfp+ nic.
So how am I going to put this server together with a controller without a bottleneck?
1. The controller LSI SAS 9305-24i is expensive ($500-600) but its simple plug and play, enough ports for all drives and utilize x8 pci-e 3.0.
2. On the other hand, the LSI SAS 9201-16i is cheap but has only 16 ports (im fine with that) but can it handle drives over 4TB and max the speed of the drives?
3. If I went with the 9201-16i and added a Intel RES2SV240, can it handle 24 drives with max performance?