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Hi everyone

I'm looking to expand my storage. I have a case capable of 8 bays and I don't think I'll exceed that soon (currently at 3 drives).

I bought a m.2 slot with a bunch of sata ports on it but it doesn't work. I've researched and read an HBA is a much better solution anyway.

If I'm going to get the HBA I might as well run all 8 ports on it.

Aside from the clearance on the card in the case, are there any other considerations I need to he aware of? I justbeant to get something that works from the get go. For my uses I have a good amount of apps and I stream media from the server

CPU- i5-10400f 2.90ghz

MOBO - asrock h570m-itx/ac

RAM - gskill f4-3200c16-8gvkb

GPU - Quadro k620 (gm107gl) rev a2

CASE - Jonsbo N3

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[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for teaching me what "IT" stands for in this case.... I always assumed it was "Information Technology" and thought it was weird but never bothered to look it up 🤣

[–] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

No problem.

I try to explain things as best as I can so everyone can learn. I've been using TrueNAS since the FreeNAS 9.2 era so about 13 years now. When I started I had already dealt with a ton of issues and was searching for better than multiple single drives. My first real build was a Dual Xeon X5690 setup in an X8DT6-F so learning this about SAS was really important.

Sadly there are so many acronyms out there (and growing all the time) that is getting hard to just read the news let alone anything else without a little help.