chasis \ lsi controller question

[iliak]

i can order some servers with a good price:
these are the models
6027TR-DTRF+
6027TR-D71RF+
6027TR-D70RF+

does one of them work with freenass out of the box (one of the nodes) without custom lsi card?

 

[sretalla]

I would opt for the 6027TR-D70RF+ over the 6027TR-D71RF+ (since the latter has the RAID variant rather than HBA).

I don't see anything specifically bad about the 6027TR-DTRF+ from a TrueNAS perspective either though.

 

[iliak]

I would opt for the 6027TR-D70RF+ over the 6027TR-D71RF+ (since the latter has the RAID variant rather than HBA).

I don't see anything specifically bad about the 6027TR-DTRF+ from a TrueNAS perspective either though.

you think it will work without extra lsi card in the pci ?

 

[sretalla]

you think it will work without extra lsi card in the pci ?

Depends on how many disks you want to load it up with, but there are onboard SATA ports in all those, so that would be enough for it to work.

It seems from the manual (https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/motherboard/C606_602/MNL-1334.pdf) page 2-23 there is reference to the additional connector board which may pass the SATA ports through to the chassis bays.

I feel like Supermicro wouldn't sell a system with that many drive bays that couldn't support having disks in them.

 

[iliak]

what i am trying to understand is that usually for freenass it is requires an UNRAID(lsi in IT\HBA mode), i used S2308L-L8e on my current build.
do i need to add another lsi card for this ?

 

[sretalla]

freenass ... requires an UNRAID(lsi in IT\HBA mode)

Any kind of SATA controller (although it's recommended to avoid Marvel controllers) works from the perspective of FreeNAS. That system has an Intel SATA controller in it, so no problem (it would only be a question of physical connection, which I think is covered in the manual as I mentioned).