Arman
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I know people here say Supermicro motherboards are well supported for freenas. But I just thought this AsRock Motherboard had an advantage over the Supermicro X11SSH-F (which i've been considering a lot) because it has 4 pci-e slots over 3. Also, the 16x pci-e slot on the X11SSH-F is actually a x8 which doesn't give me full bandwidth, whereas the AsRock has a true 16x slot (if at a future date I decided that I want to use it for something that benefits from it).
Since Skylake only supports XHCI now, I will have to install the OS on a harddrive. The case i'm building my NAS inside had space for 8 HDDs and 2 SSDs. I don't think i'm willing to waste one motherboard sata port as a boot drive instead of using it for a main drive. I'd rather prefer to get a pcie to sata adapter to use for the OS SSD and keep the other motherboard sata ports for the main drives. Because the AsRock has 4 PCI-e ports (including a 1x which is perfect for a pci-e to sata adapter) I have the other pci-e ports to use for more important things if I ever need to at a later date.
I'd like to know what you guys think of this... Sorry for the noobiness
Since Skylake only supports XHCI now, I will have to install the OS on a harddrive. The case i'm building my NAS inside had space for 8 HDDs and 2 SSDs. I don't think i'm willing to waste one motherboard sata port as a boot drive instead of using it for a main drive. I'd rather prefer to get a pcie to sata adapter to use for the OS SSD and keep the other motherboard sata ports for the main drives. Because the AsRock has 4 PCI-e ports (including a 1x which is perfect for a pci-e to sata adapter) I have the other pci-e ports to use for more important things if I ever need to at a later date.
I'd like to know what you guys think of this... Sorry for the noobiness