I am treating my TrueNas Core box to a HW upgrade. I am not sure I gave much thought to which ports I used when I made it.
Today I have 8 drives
Does any have guidance or ever test onboard ports vs SAS Card vs mixing the two? I searched around and saw a lot of comments that seem to be inconsistent on what might yeild the best results. I am open to any thoughts whether they be performance, redundancy, protection related that would be considered a best practice.
Today I have 8 drives
- 4 use the motherboard ports (2xboot pool 256GB, 2xSSD pool 2TB)
- 4 use a 92xx SAS Card (data pool 80TB)
- It seems to work just fine and I've never heard a complaint or experienced one.
Does any have guidance or ever test onboard ports vs SAS Card vs mixing the two? I searched around and saw a lot of comments that seem to be inconsistent on what might yeild the best results. I am open to any thoughts whether they be performance, redundancy, protection related that would be considered a best practice.