Xeon E5 v3/v4 I believe. Not too bad. Pity they don’t have ECC.
Hey cool, I have a couple of x99 Asrock Taichi boards… look to be ECC compatible, hmmm, but not necessary actually error correcting/detecting.
I used one of the AliExpress/eBay 4 port ones you can get for more or less 20$ US (sold the server so it’s lying around now) and as long as your mobo has bifurcation then use that unless you have Asus ones locally cheap.
I’ve also used the Qnap ones with a PLX ship, and that was fun, but totally unnecessary for my use, I didn’t need that much nvme and got some enterprise SATA drives instead
I bought a pre-used Asrock Rack RB4M2 for 12€. It is well-built quality and works just fine.
There’s a guy on youtube that does an IN DEPTH review of lots of these cards, both the switched ($$) and the bifrucation cards. The attached link is to his review of three models of the Asus Hyper card (PCIE3, PCIE4 V1, PCIE4 V2 ). He looks at lots of other cards in other videos on his channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ausyywqxp9k
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Since “RAID” was mentioned multiple times:
In terms of correct use of terminology RAID and TrueNAS are mutually exclusive. So whenever someone talks about RAID here, the alarm kind-of goes off. Either someone is sloppy about terminology, which opens a can of worms for misunderstanding. Remember that all we have to work with is the wording used. The other reason is that people lack a fundamental understanding how ZFS works, which is equally challenging for those who want to help.
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