SATA Card question/suggestion

[Eric Sweeney]

I built my FreeNAS about 6 years ago and things have been running well. About 6 or 8 months ago, I replaced a failed 6TB drive and then again a couple months ago and now I have another failed drive. The one from a couple months ago is in the same bay as the current one and it might have been the same as the one 6 or 8 months ago, I didn't mark which one failed back then. The point is, I am now questioning either that SATA port on my motherboard so, before I swap out that drive again and maybe switch around the ports drives are plugged into (i only have 6 ports and 6 drives so, I cant exclude the potential bad one), I was thinking of maybe buying a SATA card with ports and then plug the new drive into the card instead of the "bad" port. Any suggestions for cards that will work with FreeNas or other ideas for this situation?

 

[GBillR]

Take a look here. You can pick up a LSI HBA for a reasonable cost.

More details on your setup and what you mean by "failed drive" might elicit additional opinions from the forum...

 

[ThreeDee]

I run the IBM M1015 crossflashed to LSI 9220-8i IT-mode and it's been a great inexpensive setup. You can run up to 8 drives off of it SAS or SATA via whatever breakout cables you get for it

Card cost me $26 off of Ebay and mini-SAS to 4-SATA cable cost me $7

 

[AVB]

I run the IBM M1015 crossflashed to LSI 9220-8i IT-mode and it's been a great inexpensive setup. You can run up to 8 drives off of it SAS or SATA via whatever breakout cables you get for it

Card cost me $26 off of Ebay and mini-SAS to 4-SATA cable cost me $7

Agreed. I've been running the IBM and Dell Perc cards for about 5-6 years now with no problems.