January 9, 20242 yr I use an ASRock IMB-1314 motherboard in a U-NAS 810A case. I love that the compact case has room for eight 3.5" hard drives and that the motherboard has eight SATA slots plus four M.2 slots, two of which I use for NVME cards. My problem is I'd like to have a ninth SATA port to add a 2.5" solid state drive which the case supports. I've seen an inexpensive Xiwai B/M-Key M.2 to SATA Adapter which fits into one of my unused M.2 slots, but when I connected a hard drive to it (along with power) I didn't see it populating in Unraid. I checked motherboard BIOS settings to see if I needed to change any setting to "turn it on" but couldn't find anything. I also couldn't find any Unraid setting that might be applicable. The card was cheap and might have been a dud, but I'm wondering if anyone has an experience turning one of their M.2 slots into an additional SATA slot and using it in Unraid. Did you have to do anything special? Are there any caveats? Is there anything I can do to see where it might fail at? As an aside, I don't want to use my PCIe slots for the SSD drive. Also, my plan for this SSD drive is as a temporary dump when transferring large files over the network so the HHD speeds aren't a bottle neck. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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