Sata drive hooked to USB mb header

[spchtr]

I came across these:

http://www.addonics.com/products/adsau3.php

And was wondering if anyone had any experience using them?

I'm really wanting to build a NAS and use FreeNAS for the OS.

Currently I'm looking at the X9SCM-F motherboard. I noticed it had 6 onboard usb headers, and was thinking this might be a viable option for upping the number of hdds without buying a controller card, though now that I actually type this out it's probably cheaper just to add a couple of 4 port sata cards to the system.

Still I'm curious if anyone had experience with them. Might be useful with some other boards I've looked at with a lack of generous PCI-e slots.

 

[zambanini]

really? you want to connect the disks to a usb sata bridge instead of buying a cheap sata card? wow sounds crazy

 

[Ericloewe]

Bad idea. SATA/USB bridges don't typically work very well. And USB 2.0 is sloooooooow.

I'd suggest you take a look at a Supermicro X10SL7-F, which will easily handle 14 drives. You can add expanders and/or another HBA for an essentially unlimited number of HDDs.

 

[DrKK]

Bad idea. SATA/USB bridges don't typically work very well. And USB 2.0 is sloooooooow.

I'd suggest you take a look at a Supermicro X10SL7-F, which will easily handle 14 drives. You can add expanders and/or another HBA for an essentially unlimited number of HDDs.

EDIT: Disregard the below. Apparently I didn't see the gigantic collection of SAS ports.

How do you figure, Eric? The X10SL7-F has only 6 ports on it.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c220/x10sl7-f.cfm

 

[spchtr]

Just curious, with the supermicro boards what is the difference between the X10SL7-F and the X10SL7-F-O? I can't find that second one on Supermicro's website, and I can't find the first on newegg. I'm guessing the O is for OEM or white box. Though I did find a post mentioning that FreeBSD 9.2 works with the X10SL7-F pretty good.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/new-server-build.39194/#post-244854

Anyone running this with FreeNAS? Is there anything to watch out for on the board?

 

[Ericloewe]

Just curious, with the supermicro boards what is the difference between the X10SL7-F and the X10SL7-F-O? I can't find that second one on Supermicro's website, and I can't find the first on newegg. I'm guessing the O is for OEM or white box. Though I did find a post mentioning that FreeBSD 9.2 works with the X10SL7-F pretty good.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/new-server-build.39194/#post-244854

Anyone running this with FreeNAS? Is there anything to watch out for on the board?

The model number ends at X10SL7-F

the -O tacked on is for retail packaging and the -B would be for bulk.