Simpleone71
Dabbler
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2016
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I have a current Freenas 9.3 setup of:
Supermicro CSE-825TQ-563LPB 8-Bays
Supermicro X10SRI-F-O
Intel Xeon E5-2630v3
64 GB ECC ram
8 HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB drives in Raidz2
M1015 flashed as LSI in IT mode
I'm wanting to upgrade by buying a 16 bay Supermicro CSE-836E1-R800B. I would slowly add more 4 TB drives to eventually fill up the 16 bays. I would add the drives 2 at a time. I would be keeping the motherboard, cpu, ram, etc.
My question is since I will be having a total of 16 bays, would I need to purchase a second M1015 (and of course flash it to IT mode) or would I be better buying a single card of some type that handles 16 ports(recommendations if that is a yes)? Can I add the drives two at a time and increase the pool as I do this?
Supermicro CSE-825TQ-563LPB 8-Bays
Supermicro X10SRI-F-O
Intel Xeon E5-2630v3
64 GB ECC ram
8 HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB drives in Raidz2
M1015 flashed as LSI in IT mode
I'm wanting to upgrade by buying a 16 bay Supermicro CSE-836E1-R800B. I would slowly add more 4 TB drives to eventually fill up the 16 bays. I would add the drives 2 at a time. I would be keeping the motherboard, cpu, ram, etc.
My question is since I will be having a total of 16 bays, would I need to purchase a second M1015 (and of course flash it to IT mode) or would I be better buying a single card of some type that handles 16 ports(recommendations if that is a yes)? Can I add the drives two at a time and increase the pool as I do this?