PCI-E support?

[Madsuns]

Hi guys, I have a project in mind..I could have a ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ motherboard with a celeron processor for around 60$... the idea is to take this board with the processor adding 32gb of ram to it and adding like 7 pci-e add-on card (max of ports) like this one (mod note: link redacted)
With 6 hdd support each card, can FreeNAS support these pci-e card and detect all the drives??

 

[ornias]

I'm not going to click a shortified url from a first time poster. Thank you.
(NOR SHOULD ANYONE)

That being said:
If the cards are supported (please do your own research first and list names in your post itself...), ofcourse freenas would.
I don't know if your card is going to work on PCI-E 1x though and it certainly isn't going to be fast...

But asuming your cards work with FreeNAS, your CPU has enough Lanes and your cards work with PCI-E 1x, there should be nothing holding you back :)

 

[Madsuns]

Rivo Carte PCIe SATA, 6 ports avec 6 câbles SATA, carte d'extension de contrôleur SATA avec support discret, Marvell 9215 Non-Raid, Boot as System, prend en charge 6 appareils SATA 3.0 (SA3014) : Amazon.ca: Électronique

Rivo Carte PCIe SATA, 6 ports avec 6 câbles SATA, carte d'extension de contrôleur SATA avec support discret, Marvell 9215 Non-Raid, Boot as System, prend en charge 6 appareils SATA 3.0 (SA3014) : Amazon.ca: Électronique

www.amazon.ca

That's the shorten url

 

[jgreco]

Marvell cards have a hit-or-miss chance of working, and generally it's much better to stick an HBA in a system and get a known-good source of ports.

This was written more for people who wanted to use RAID cards, but this is also generally applicable to people trying to use dodgy SATA ports:

https://www.ixsystems.com/community...bas-and-why-cant-i-use-a-raid-controller.139/

 

[Madsuns]

Thanks jgreco