Iscsi adapter?

[HoneyBadger]

Hey @davistw

If you’re out of ports, you’ll most likely want to add a Host Bus Adapter to your system. See this thread below where a user helpfully chronicles their experience.

My experience buying and flashing a used LSI HBA (SAS9207-8i, aka SAS9208-8i, aka 2308) to replace my "dodgy port multiplier"

So, after the recent Dragonfish upgrade, my cheap no-name SATA port multiplier card stopped working. This problem was reported by multiple people and is being tracked as bug NAS-128478 by the TrueNAS engineers, but in the meantime I read through a lot of discussion about SATA port multipliers vs host bus adapters (HBAs), and in particular the “legendary” (according to the docs) LSI HBAs. Although I think using junk hardware in general is a fine and wonderful thing, I found several persuasive ar…