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Some guides from the old resident grinch:

Multiply your problems with SATA Port Multipliers and cheap SATA controllers

This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. In the last year or two, we’ve had a resurgence of users asking about SATA Port Multipliers and cheap SATA controllers. Please, do NOT use port multipliers, and use cheap SATA controllers only after extensive research. SATA controllers and SATA Port Multipliers are some of the cheapest hardware, designed to make a number of hard drives acc…

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What's all the noise about HBAs, and why can't I use a RAID controller?

I have to waste an entire drive just for booting?

This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. With the advent of TrueNAS Scale, we seem to be getting a large number of people from the Linux community who are not quite grasping what TrueNAS is. TrueNAS is not a “Linux distro” and it is not designed to try to meet your arbitrarily spec’d use cases. TrueNAS is an appliance firmware for storage, which happens to be built on top of FreeB…