Hello, I'm new here, though not new to server stuff in general (20+ years Debian experience, so will probably try TrueNAS Scale first).
I'm looking into making a quiet home server with TrueNAS on a used Dell T130, with a pair of SATA disks (or possibly 4 disks in the TrueNAS rough equivalent of RAID-10). The machine came with a PERC H330 PCIe RAID controller, but there are also SATA ports on the motherboard (special 4-port connector). Since the H330 has a big heatsink, I guess I could save a few watts by removing it if the onboard ports worked just as well. The question is, what kind of trouble can I expect by using the onboard ports (4-port connector for the data disks, and the additional single port for the small boot SSD with some kind of HW hack to get power), or in other words, has Dell put in the H330 for a good reason? Or do they work just as well (assuming no SAS disks, just SATA) with TrueNAS as it does its own ZFS software RAID anyway?
I'm looking into making a quiet home server with TrueNAS on a used Dell T130, with a pair of SATA disks (or possibly 4 disks in the TrueNAS rough equivalent of RAID-10). The machine came with a PERC H330 PCIe RAID controller, but there are also SATA ports on the motherboard (special 4-port connector). Since the H330 has a big heatsink, I guess I could save a few watts by removing it if the onboard ports worked just as well. The question is, what kind of trouble can I expect by using the onboard ports (4-port connector for the data disks, and the additional single port for the small boot SSD with some kind of HW hack to get power), or in other words, has Dell put in the H330 for a good reason? Or do they work just as well (assuming no SAS disks, just SATA) with TrueNAS as it does its own ZFS software RAID anyway?