HBA suggestions?

[HungryDad]

I have multiple SATA drives (about 50 drives in all), many 500 Gb, some 1, 2, 3 and 5 Tb that i wish to use with freenas in two servers.
Any suggestions about what hardware, specifically HBA's, to use for this?

 

[hervon]

What's all the noise about HBA's, and why can't I use a RAID controller?

This is relevant to FreeNAS and TrueNAS CORE. Some parts of it might also be relevant to Scale, but I don't really know how reliable the Linux drivers are. 1) An HBA is a Host Bus Adapter. This is a controller that allows SAS and SATA devices to be attached to, and communicate directly with...

www.ixsystems.com

Ebay est ton ami. Buy a cheap one already flash to it mode. J’en ai deux. Works great.