January 7, 20188 yr Decided to built an unRAID box and migrate all my files from a QNAP box. My question is about the hardware. I have an HP ML110 Gen9 with 48G ECC RAM, Xeon E5-2620 v3 and just 1T hard disk. My aim is to populate my hard disks to 6-8 and install unRAID. Currently, a HDD cage (4 bay) with hot swap backplane is already installed. This is connected to the motherboard through a mini SAS connector. There is another empty space for a 4-bay HDD cage. I think I have two options: 1. Buy another 4-bay HDD cage with backplane and install. This will be connected to the second mini SAS connector on the motherboard. If I go this way, will unRAID recognize the disks? However, I don't need hot swap as it is a home server. 2. Buy a compatible HBA card, flash it IT mode and connect all 8 HDDs to it through mini SAS or individually (is there such a HBA?) What are the recommendations? Thank you for your help.
January 7, 20188 yr If it detects the first disks with the onboard controller, then it will detect the rest with the onboard controller. If the onboard controller does not detect the first disks installed (don't know if that gen has jbod onboard,) then you'll either have to make each disk a raid 0 or buy an hba that has jbod, which you can then just hook up to the cages.
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