SATA bus card

[emetz]

Greetings all. I am going to be building FreeNAS on older hardware but I will need additional SATA ports than the board has. Can anyone recommend a good SATA bus card that will go into a PCI Express slot or PCI-16 slot?

Thanks,

 

[jgreco]

Yes, you probably don't want a "SATA bus card" because who knows what chipset it has. The best way to add disks to FreeNAS is with a host bus adapter (HBA). This is basically the enterprise SAS equivalent of a "SATA bus card" except that it's much more likely to work well.

Please check out the following links in their entirety

https://www.truenas.com/community/t...-sas-sy-a-primer-on-basic-sas-and-sata.26145/

https://www.truenas.com/community/t...s-and-why-cant-i-use-a-raid-controller.81931/

 

[emetz]

Cool. Thanks. If anyone has any other suggestions, Please post!

 

[ThreeDee]

The HBA card in sig was $25 on ebay ..it was listed as an IBM ServeRaid M1015 and then I flashed it to IT mode. .. you can add up to 8 sata or sas drives.. break out sata cables was $7.. an HBA card flashed to IT mode is going to be your best bet