Hi all, I found a mobo with 8 on board SATA ports:
ASRock A75 extreme6: 8 SATA 6.0 ports, 6 run by A75 and 2 run by ASMedia ASM1061 on-board controller.
My question is are these 8 on-board ports worked straight out of the box with 8 new drives? Can freenas recognize the HDDs connected to all 8 on-board ports and no need to install chipset drivers manually? I have checked ASRock website, only windows drivers available, no linux/freebsd/mac drivers.
I'm worried that freenas 8.01 doesn't support A75 chipset, and doesn't support the very unknown ASMedia ASM1061 chipset. Or as they're on-board ports, no problem at all definitely?
PS: I'm open to any plan, any other mother boards with at least 8 ports, please feel free to recommend. Several Z68 boards have 8-10 onboard ports but the price is 150% as asrock a75 extreme6. :(
ASRock A75 extreme6: 8 SATA 6.0 ports, 6 run by A75 and 2 run by ASMedia ASM1061 on-board controller.
My question is are these 8 on-board ports worked straight out of the box with 8 new drives? Can freenas recognize the HDDs connected to all 8 on-board ports and no need to install chipset drivers manually? I have checked ASRock website, only windows drivers available, no linux/freebsd/mac drivers.
I'm worried that freenas 8.01 doesn't support A75 chipset, and doesn't support the very unknown ASMedia ASM1061 chipset. Or as they're on-board ports, no problem at all definitely?
PS: I'm open to any plan, any other mother boards with at least 8 ports, please feel free to recommend. Several Z68 boards have 8-10 onboard ports but the price is 150% as asrock a75 extreme6. :(