Gerry Mullins
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I was gifted with a very clean 9 year old OptiPlex 780 Small Form Factor that has an internal 160GB HDD which I've configured as a FreeNAS volume (just to confirm that FreeNAS v11 would run on it). It's been humming along for a couple of weeks with no issues, and now I'm ready to graduate to an array so that I can enjoy the benefits of ZFS, and lots of space to host backups, media, etc. MY QUESTION IS: Can I use the eSATA port factory installed on the back of the Optiplex to connect a JBOD with a few 1TB WD Red drives. I've looked at some eSATA JBODs that require a "eSATA PCIe port multiplier" (for example: https://goo.gl/jZ3XkE). Or, should I be looking in another direction for external storage? Has anyone done this with older generation Dells?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!