Verify Asus M4A785-M motherboard Controller card choice?

September 13, 201114 yr

Want to verify the Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 or Adaptec 2241000-R PCI Express x4 SATA II (3.0Gb/s) 1430SA SGL will work SIMPLY.

I.E. Turn off server, install PCIex16 card, turn on and boot into unRaid and any new drives I install to the new SATA controller will be seen and usable by unraid? I am running 4.6 I believe or whatever was Production code in August of 2010.

Thanks

Backstory:

Last summer I built a pretty simply UnRAID server using an Asus M4A785-M MoBo, AMD Sempron Chip w/ 2GB of ram and (4) 1TB drives in a Coolermaster non-hotswap enclosure. I recently added 1 more 1TB drive as my needs grew. I THOUGHT I would just wind up swapping 1TB for 2 TB drives, but since I didn't buy a hot-swap cage it's not that easy, sigh.

I can only fit 1 more drive before I am out of on-board SATA ports(and upgrade license too).

So I have several upgrade options as my needs are about to drastically increase.

1) Replace my coolermaster dock with a hot swappable dock and replace current 1TB drives with 2TB drives instead=$$

2) Install a SATA controller and add some 1TB drives since they are cheap.

4) Buy new Full tower case and probably bigger PSU, slap in 2 or 3 (4-in-3) or (5-in-3) hot swap drive cages, and transfer over mobo/ram/cpu/usb etc & upgrade to Pro license to new case. $$$$$$, but dramatically decreases future costs=just HD's

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