masonvanmeurs
Dabbler
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2018
- Messages
- 25
Hey all. I've got a system running FreeNAS-11.2-U7 (Build Date: Nov 19, 2019 0:4). My mobo has 6 sata ports total and I have a problem. 2 years ago I didn't plan for the future very well and installed 3 drives and one boot drive. So I currently I have 2 sata ports open. I would like to install an additional 3 drives to run raid z1 on them. I think I have two options regarding what I can do to make this work:
Option 1:
Backup the config and boot to a USB thumb drive and restore the config, freeing up a sata port.
Option 2:
I'm not sure how this would work because I know ZFS requires any drives to be connected directly to the mobo. Could I somehow plug in my new drives into my raid card (That I'm not using currently) and somehow configure the card to allow the mobo to 'see' the drives on 'virtual' mobo sata ports? Is there an PCI express card I could buy to do this if my raid card wouldn't work?
Option 1:
Backup the config and boot to a USB thumb drive and restore the config, freeing up a sata port.
Option 2:
I'm not sure how this would work because I know ZFS requires any drives to be connected directly to the mobo. Could I somehow plug in my new drives into my raid card (That I'm not using currently) and somehow configure the card to allow the mobo to 'see' the drives on 'virtual' mobo sata ports? Is there an PCI express card I could buy to do this if my raid card wouldn't work?
Last edited: