TrueNAS Scale Pool not working or showing up

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I also have 24.10.2.1 and 24.10.2 boot enviroments on boot drive, should I try using one of those because of the middleware errors or will that just make things worse?

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And my powersupply is a Coolmaster RS-600

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That max is quite toasty. High enough that some manufacturers can point at that and say the warranty is void. The current temp looks okay though.

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I am going to build a new server in a Fractal Define 7XL Box w/ MAG z790Motheroard, Focus GX-850 power supply, ProArt LC420 Radiator for cooling, Intel i9 processer.
My question about this is it only has 7 Sata ports, will a M2. PCIe Gen3x2 (Vantec) expansion card for Sata work ok for the other ports I need since I have a minimun 8 HD.

If the M2. card won’t work I can get the ASRock z790 motherboard.

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My experience with expansion cards in m.2 format is that they are not really built for it, structurally, they are too fragile to push another connector into.

Add to that that the card you mentioned is based on a JMB585 chipset, which isn’t doesn’t see as much driver support as ASMedia chips (although even those are sometimes iffy).

While a SATA expansion card can work, I deliberately stay well clear of them. Too many issues with sketchy drivers and firmware, at least for me. A 2008-based (aka 92XX-series) or ideally 3008-based (aka 93XX-series) HBA would be my recommendation, with breakout cables and a dedicated cooling fan.

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So if I get a hba 3008 controller should I run all the hard drives through that or split them with motherboard?
Also if splitting them with motherboard can I then find a MB with less Sata ports than 8?

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Doesn’t matter. A pool can consist of drives from SATA and HBA ports, in combination or not. Just make sure that the controller is truly in HBA or IT mode. Running the controller in RAID mode is a recipe for disaster.

If you want, sure. If you don’t need the ports (because they are provided in whole or in part by the HBA) there’s no reason why you couldn’t get a MB with less SATA ports.

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Update:

Sorry the update has taken so long, waiting for parts and then stuff got in the way. I have rebuilt the server from the ground up (including the boot drives, only keeping original 8 Hard drives). It has eliminated all the ZFS errors that were appearing too, so I take that as a good sign.

TrueNAS Scale 25.04.2.5
RAM: 64GB
8 x 12TB Hard drives (all CMR, Seagate, Toshiba, WD NAS Drives) (RaidZ2)
1 256GN NVME (boot) (will mirror it when I get everything else running)
MSI Pro Z790-A MAX (12th Gen i9-12900K)
LSI SAS3008 9300-8I IT-Mode HBA JBOD PCI-E 3.0
Case: Fractal 7xl
PSU: Focus GX-850 power supply
ProART LC420 for cooling

I imported the the pool as it saw the pool (thankfully).
I setup just 1 user (as my old configs are toast) and was about to set up the SMB.
When doing that for path I select /mnt/MainNAS (name of pool).
My next question is do I need to create a Dataset when creating the SMB (since a new boot drive), if I don’t chose that option I get “Configuring SMB Exports of root-level datasets may lead to storage reconfiguration issuses. Consider creating a dataset instead.”
I don’t want to erase the 49TB of data I had in pool, so I don’t want to do the wrong thing.
ZFS Health says Unhealthy (pool status online)