January 25, 201610 yr Current Config: Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 Processor: AMD FD8350FRHKBOX FX-8350 RAM: Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz DDR3 CL10 (Plan to get another one of these kits later) The motherboard has 6 on-board SATA ports but I plan on having more than 6 hard drives of course, hopefully 12 spinning drives and 6 SSD's. So the plan is to get a couple of add-in cards. The first one would be this that I got on sale from Newegg - SYBA SI-PEX40064 which I verified was on the compatibility list. I'd like to try and move the 3 current hard drives(2 data 1 parity) that I have to this add in controller, then over time add one more to this card to fill it up to the 4. Next I'm planning on getting a IO Crest SATA III 8 Port Controller Card, which would allow me to have 8 more drives, with one being a second parity. Finally the on-board will be used for a cache pool, hopefully 6 SSD's for faster data transfers and VM's. First question, does anyone foresee any issues with moving the 3 existing hard drives to the new add-in card? Second question, does anyone have any concerns or suggestions for my setup? Thank you
January 25, 201610 yr Should be no problem. I have swapped out SAS/RAID cards 3 or 4 times and v6 picks up the drives in their proper slots no problem. v5 you had to re-apply them to their slots. No more fiddling now with v6.
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