Alpha-Inc.
Dabbler
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2021
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Hello everybody,
I’m currently moving my internal TrueNAS hardware to a new case (server chassis). All the chassis I found use a SATA Backplane and I’ve never heard about those.
When I was first introduced into FreeNAS I was told not to use a hardware RAID-Controller since the RAID is done by FreeNAS/TrueNAS itself. Also, when the hardware controller breaks you have to use the exact same model in order for it work again (am I right?) Now I’m not sure if this rule also applies to a backplane or if I can simply use any SATA backplane when it breaks one day?
Also, my mainboard only has 4 SATA ports but 2 additional MiniSAS HD ports with which I can connect 8 drives. Is it possible use those MiniSAS HD cables to create the bridge between the SATA backplane and the mainboard or how to i connect my drives over the backplane while also powering them ?
I’m currently moving my internal TrueNAS hardware to a new case (server chassis). All the chassis I found use a SATA Backplane and I’ve never heard about those.
When I was first introduced into FreeNAS I was told not to use a hardware RAID-Controller since the RAID is done by FreeNAS/TrueNAS itself. Also, when the hardware controller breaks you have to use the exact same model in order for it work again (am I right?) Now I’m not sure if this rule also applies to a backplane or if I can simply use any SATA backplane when it breaks one day?
Also, my mainboard only has 4 SATA ports but 2 additional MiniSAS HD ports with which I can connect 8 drives. Is it possible use those MiniSAS HD cables to create the bridge between the SATA backplane and the mainboard or how to i connect my drives over the backplane while also powering them ?