If I'm running out of SATA ports to add more drives, and I go with a PCIe SATA expansion card, if I use all the new ports, will the drive will be able to work full speed (in term of bandwidth)? Or there are limits? For example, if I use this card...

i have an old computer that i wanted to turn into a freenas for my home. problem is it has an amd fx processor which is very power hungry and heat intesive. so turning it into a station would require to replace the motherboard and processor and at least reading around i need at least 16gb of...

Hi All , firstly my apologies is this thread is duplicate of a question some one else has asked Hardware: HP proliant n54l, 16GB Ram 5x 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives setup in Raidz. FreeNAS Version and build: FreeNAS-9.10.1-U2 (f045a8b) FreeNAS Volume and Data Set: 1x Volume using 5x 3TB split...