Wuast94 Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 Im searching for a way to expand my sata Ports. Pci express to sata seems the way to go. I tried to understand what I should buy but I am confused. Some cards are slow on pci (1x 2x 3x express etc) Sata 2/3 (woukd like 3 for future) Max capacity (I don't like limits. Im using 8tb hdds) Unraid compatible (some work. Some needs flashing (how?). Some are limited in anyway) Price (as low as possible😜) Ports (min 8 sata ports I think) And why raid controller? I don't want to raid anything..I just want to get more sata ports for more hdds in unraid without buying a new board/cpu/ram I hope anyone can help me to see clearly in this. Quote Link to comment
mrbilky Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 49 minutes ago, Wuast94 said: Im searching for a way to expand my sata Ports. Pci express to sata seems the way to go. I tried to understand what I should buy but I am confused. Some cards are slow on pci (1x 2x 3x express etc) Sata 2/3 (woukd like 3 for future) Max capacity (I don't like limits. Im using 8tb hdds) Unraid compatible (some work. Some needs flashing (how?). Some are limited in anyway) Price (as low as possible😜) Ports (min 8 sata ports I think) And why raid controller? I don't want to raid anything..I just want to get more sata ports for more hdds in unraid without buying a new board/cpu/ram I hope anyone can help me to see clearly in this. I bought this on ebay was plug and play it must be flashed to IT mode but that was done by the seller I put it in my x16 slot at 8x works without issues gives me 8 sata ports via 2 SFF-8087 connectors, Dell H310 6Gbps SAS HBA w/ LSI 9211-8i P20 IT Mode for ZFS FreeNAS unRAID Quote Link to comment
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