tim.bishop
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- Jun 6, 2018
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Hi all,
I'm mulling over a new FreeNAS build and I'm fairly happy with most of the options. The board I'm looking at (Supermicro X11SSM-F) has 8 SATA ports and I intend to use 8 WD red drives, so that doesn't leave any remaining ports for a boot device.
Booting off USB is certainly an option - not ideal, but it'll work. I also have an SSD that I can use too if I could connect it.
So I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions? I guess a PCI-e device is an obvious choice, either a SATA controller to connect the SSD to, or maybe an M.2 card with a cheap drive on it.
Another alternative is the X11SSH-F with its M.2 connector, but it appears more limited and I expect a PCI-e card would be better albeit less compact.
Any other options I haven't thought of?
I'm mulling over a new FreeNAS build and I'm fairly happy with most of the options. The board I'm looking at (Supermicro X11SSM-F) has 8 SATA ports and I intend to use 8 WD red drives, so that doesn't leave any remaining ports for a boot device.
Booting off USB is certainly an option - not ideal, but it'll work. I also have an SSD that I can use too if I could connect it.
So I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions? I guess a PCI-e device is an obvious choice, either a SATA controller to connect the SSD to, or maybe an M.2 card with a cheap drive on it.
Another alternative is the X11SSH-F with its M.2 connector, but it appears more limited and I expect a PCI-e card would be better albeit less compact.
Any other options I haven't thought of?