ASRock E3C236D2I - add one more drive & SCSI HBA

TrueNAS General
1

Dear all,

I use all 6 SCSI ports on my MB for VDEV. Now I would like to burn-in new disks before resilvering. I tried running long SMART tests for a drive attached via an external (USB) enclosure, but this does not seem to work (only short tests run).
So I wonder if I can buy (a cheap) PCIe card to be able to attach another drive internally? If so, could anyone please recommend one?

Thank you in advance!

2

LSI HBA cards are recommended that are plain or in IT Mode
Link to post on old forum. SATA port expanders are usually not recommended

Do you have another computer you can do burn in on the drives?

2 Likes
3

Thanks for the reply. I presume the same applies to Scale which is not FreeBSD?

LSI HBA card in Europe costs about 60€, started to think that I might rather try to burn in on an old Linux workstation lying in the basement…

1 Like