ivez Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 The expansion slots are the following: 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (blue @ x16 mode, gray @ x4 mode) support ATI® CrossFireX technology1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot3 x PCI slots I want to be able to add another 4 drives to my array. Any advice is much appreciated. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 If you think you will not need more than 4 ports I recommend the adaptec 1430SA, relatively cheap on ebay and works very well with Unraid, just make sure it’s using latest firmware for > 2tb support. Quote Link to comment
ivez Posted November 5, 2015 Author Share Posted November 5, 2015 If you think you will not need more than 4 ports I recommend the adaptec 1430SA, relatively cheap on ebay and works very well with Unraid, just make sure it’s using latest firmware for > 2tb support. Thanks for the quick response. I currently have a plus license which I think allows 12 drives and the following setup: 1 x parity 3 x array 1 x cache Am I allowed another 7 drives? What card is best in this scenario? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Yes, you can have up to 12 devices. Your board should work with 2 x 1430sa, so you can by one now and another in the future, another option would be to by now a 8 port SAS card, most common used with Unraid are: Supermicro SASLP – plug n play, probably one of the cheapest 8 port cards and works ok with Unraid but somewhat bandwidth limited, with 8 disks on the controller it will limit your parity checks to ~80MB/s Supermicro SAS2LP – plug n play, there was a performance issue but was solved and won’t be a problem on next Unraid release IBM M1015 or Dell Perc H310 – IMO one of the best 8 port cards you can buy now for Unraid but has to be flashed to IT mode Quote Link to comment
ivez Posted November 5, 2015 Author Share Posted November 5, 2015 Johnnie I have one more question. If I go for the Supermicro SASLP am I right in thinking I can slot it into the larger x16 slots? Since this card is x4 i figure i wouldn't want it in the smaller x1 slot. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Correct, it should work in any of the 16x slots. Quote Link to comment
ivez Posted November 5, 2015 Author Share Posted November 5, 2015 Thanks johnnie. Ended up going for the SuperMicro - AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 with these cables LSI CBL-SFF8087OCF-05M 0.5m SFF-8087 to Discrete Multi-Lane Internal Forward Breakout SATA Cable all delivered tomorrow. Quote Link to comment
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