November 18, 2025Nov 18 Hello guys. Glad to be joining this community! I am preparing a system to be used with Unraid so I am going through preliminary preparations.I will be using a Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4 as a mobo and I need 5 SATA drives, while this has only 4 SATA ports. As I understand, I need a SAS HBA and I can find those in 2nd hand market. 8087 internal 2 ports LSI 9207-8i HBA8088 external 2 ports LSI 9207-8e HBA8088 external 4 ports LSI 9206-16e HBAThe user that is selling them mentioned that he's been using those JBOD. I am wondering though:Which one should I choose? Is there any one of those going to work out of the box with Unraid? And one clarification. How many SATA drives will I be able to connect to each of those parts in the HBA card? Is it 1-on-1 or is it different?Thanks in advance guys.Cheers!
November 19, 2025Nov 19 11 hours ago, coppiman said:8088 external 2 ports LSI 9207-8e HBA8088 external 4 ports LSI 9206-16e HBAThese have external connections, so assuming the drives will be inside the case get an i model.
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