PCi 1X HBAs option

[mrwxyz]

My motherboard has only on SATA port free and has a PCI 3 1X slot available, is there any recomendation for PCI 3 1x hardware which can be used to connect SATA drives?
PCI 4X slot is already occupied by Quadd core NIC card.
I am using HP 290 Mini PC for setting up NAS and PFSense.

 

[blanchet]

You probably never find a HBA for a PCIe 1x slot, because such a slot does not provide enough bandwidth for the disks behind the HBA.
But as a possible alternative, you can replace the quad-port NIC by a dual port PCIe1x NIC, like the Broadcom BCM5720, to free a PCIe 4x slot for a HBA.

The BCM5720 board

• can be found for a very small fee on ebay, for example the DELL BCM5720.
• exists in low and high profile
• is very well supported by any OS, including VMware ESXi, Linux and FreeBSD because BCM5720 is the default onboard ethernet chip on many HPE and DELL servers.

 

[mrwxyz]

Thanks,makes sense.

 

[jgreco]

The Broadcoms are sometimes flaky. Beware. The Intel cards are OK, even a desktop CT card.