Hello,
I have an Unraid server with 5 internal SATA drives and 4 additional drives in an external drive enclosure (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5ONPAW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1) plugged in via USB 3.0.
I am planning on buying a PCIE-to-eSATA card with port multiplier (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07595M2MK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1C54F8LN6PEOV&psc=1) and moving the enclosure to that card, as well as adding an additional 4-bay external enclosure to it, so that I will have a total of 13 drives (5 internal, +4 in one enclosure, +4 in another enclosure), both utilizing eSATA port multiplier.
Questions:
1. Will the existing drives that are currently recognized as "JMICRON_GENERIC" (see attached screenshot) be recognized when they are moved over from USB to eSATA?
2. If not, what is the best way to accomplish my end goal without "starting from scratch"? If I have to stick with 1 enclosure on USB and the 2nd enclosure on eSATA, I can live with that, but it wouldn't be ideal.
Obviously I would like to accomplish this without losing any data. This particular server is backed up to another Unraid server, so it wouldn't be a total catastrophe if something bad happened, BUT the amount of data I would have to restore would take days just to copy it back, so I would like to avoid that if at all possible.
Thanks for any assistance you may provide!
-iohan