My motherboard is a ASRock H97M, it’s an Intel i3 it has about five SATA ports on the board itself and I have a total of nine drives
If this is the board you then you have 6 SATA ports, and from what I can gauge they all appear to be Intel Chipset.
Your previous lspci showed some ASM1064 ports, but perhaps all of those were on that PCIe card you had.
Yes there are six ports on the PCI card as well.
Question, That SAS HBA card has 8 ports and I have 9 WD red plus drive, can I connect the 8 on the HBA card and the one drive that’s left on my motherboard SATA port connection?
Thanks so much
Yes, that’s a valid configuration, zfs doesn’t mind the drives being connected using different types of ports.
Thank you putting it together as I type. I appreciate all your time and support I will let you know how things work out
Have read this thread with great interest even though I don’t know enough to have helped.
I’m running my server with one of the pcie splitters and so far no issues BUT I will be looking into getting a HBA asap and will be upgrading. Fortunately I do have multiple copies of my data if changing to a HBA requires remaking my Pool & datasets. Thanks to all who provided the excellent advice.
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Hey @Robert_G ,
After reading this thread, I think it might be a good idea to step back for just a minute and go back to the drawing board.
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Define what you’re trying to accomplish: the purpose of your TrueNAS scale system and what you want it to do (ex: “I want to build a home media server capable of storing 10TB of videos, and I want to serve that through Plex. I also want to run the occasional VM”.
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Put the hardware you’ve purchased in your signature. Include model numbers.
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Get some advice on whether the hardware you’ve bought is appropriate for the purpose you want and will be stable in your system.
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When you’ve done that, solicit some advice on how to setup your storage within TrueNAS in a performant and secure way.
The biggest danger in any DIY project is the one you didn’t have the experience to consider (ask me how I know). I am concerned, from what I am reading here, you have skipped some of the prerequisite considerations that could help you avoid loss of data, sanity or money. If you reset and follow those steps I’ve outlined, I think you may at least get information you may not have considered so that you can make a better decision for your needs.
Good pick, Sir!
This card is already FLASH-ed into IT mode, so you saved a FLASH.ing process for yourself!
Got lucky my friend thanks for the tip