Hi,
While I'm actually not a FreeNAS user, reading around the forum, I thought maybe this community would have some suggestions. Or should I ask at, say, unraid forums? I'm a bit overwhelmed and would be very appreciative of your suggestions.
Probably I have some basic confusions: I <think> I want neither JBOD nor RAID nor IT mode, but just additional ports directly connected to WIN10 (hopefully I'll also use same pc/hardware on a non-Windows OS in the years to come). Having searched here and around the Web, looked at a lot of specs and charts, I'm unable to find what I want. I'm also unable to always be certain of the technical context of the info I'm looking at, in terms of seeking non RAID SATA ports.
I was about to get this x8 slot card: LSI Broadcom SAS 9300-8i 8-port 12Gb/s SATA+SAS PCI-Express 3.0 Low Profile Host Bus Adapter, but I am unable to buy with any confidence.
Is it really so unusual to want 14-18 hdd/sdd drives each operating at full SATA III bandwidth in a non-RAID system? All drives are GPT storage drives except the OS which is MBR so I'm not UEFI mode booting. Currently have 2 multi TB hdd's and 8+ ssd.
System:
Win10pro x64 | Asus X99 Deluxe II (BiOS v1802, not modded) (Intel X99, Wellsburg-X chipset) | CPU = i7-6900K Broadwell-E Socket R3 (LGA2011-3), 140 W, 40-Lane, 8 core, L3 20MB | 64GB RAM | EVGA 1080Ti 11GB | NVMe 960Pro 512GB M.2 slot storage drive | 2x IcyDock 4-bay SSD cages | all AHCI (RAID-less system) | EVGA SuperNOVA 1200W P2 PSU
While I'm actually not a FreeNAS user, reading around the forum, I thought maybe this community would have some suggestions. Or should I ask at, say, unraid forums? I'm a bit overwhelmed and would be very appreciative of your suggestions.
Probably I have some basic confusions: I <think> I want neither JBOD nor RAID nor IT mode, but just additional ports directly connected to WIN10 (hopefully I'll also use same pc/hardware on a non-Windows OS in the years to come). Having searched here and around the Web, looked at a lot of specs and charts, I'm unable to find what I want. I'm also unable to always be certain of the technical context of the info I'm looking at, in terms of seeking non RAID SATA ports.
I was about to get this x8 slot card: LSI Broadcom SAS 9300-8i 8-port 12Gb/s SATA+SAS PCI-Express 3.0 Low Profile Host Bus Adapter, but I am unable to buy with any confidence.
Is it really so unusual to want 14-18 hdd/sdd drives each operating at full SATA III bandwidth in a non-RAID system? All drives are GPT storage drives except the OS which is MBR so I'm not UEFI mode booting. Currently have 2 multi TB hdd's and 8+ ssd.
System:
Win10pro x64 | Asus X99 Deluxe II (BiOS v1802, not modded) (Intel X99, Wellsburg-X chipset) | CPU = i7-6900K Broadwell-E Socket R3 (LGA2011-3), 140 W, 40-Lane, 8 core, L3 20MB | 64GB RAM | EVGA 1080Ti 11GB | NVMe 960Pro 512GB M.2 slot storage drive | 2x IcyDock 4-bay SSD cages | all AHCI (RAID-less system) | EVGA SuperNOVA 1200W P2 PSU
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