I have capacious Intel server case, lots of fans for general cooling. Asus Prime Z390-A M/B newly purchased for this project, 64 gigs RAM,
Intel I-7 -8700 / LGA1151 CPU, 700 Watt PSU, four Seagate 4 TB desktop hard drives. One or two Intel quad port gigabit nic cards. The SOLE PURPOSE for this is to supply
generic NAS file server ONLY......No " jails", no Containers, etc.
My question is the M/B has only 4 SATA port on-board raid controller which I believe I do not wish to use as this is not preferred freenas/ZFS protocol. Is there a way to set this M/B
to JBOD or " pass-through mode OR is there a modern HBA PCIE card that I can buy to supply 4 to 8 SATA ports to feed the hard drive pool? I believe I would
be establishing the structure as raid 5 ( Z1 or Z2 ?? ) TIA for help.
Intel I-7 -8700 / LGA1151 CPU, 700 Watt PSU, four Seagate 4 TB desktop hard drives. One or two Intel quad port gigabit nic cards. The SOLE PURPOSE for this is to supply
generic NAS file server ONLY......No " jails", no Containers, etc.
My question is the M/B has only 4 SATA port on-board raid controller which I believe I do not wish to use as this is not preferred freenas/ZFS protocol. Is there a way to set this M/B
to JBOD or " pass-through mode OR is there a modern HBA PCIE card that I can buy to supply 4 to 8 SATA ports to feed the hard drive pool? I believe I would
be establishing the structure as raid 5 ( Z1 or Z2 ?? ) TIA for help.
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