SATA PCIe controller 16 ports

[Bane]

I found a 24 port PCIe SATA controller on Amazon that looks interesting.

Anyone used something like this with TrueNAS?

Amazon.com

 

[ChrisRJ]

The bottom line is that you want to use a SAS HBA instead. Please also have a look at "SAS and SATA" and "Don't use RAID" in the recommended readings in my signature. The forum has a ton of threads on this topic as well.

 

[jgreco]

While I haven't seen that particular card, I would say that's sort of interesting.

Please do review

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But having said that, it looks like the construction of the card is six independent ASM1064 controllers and some sort of bridge. If they're legit non-knockoff ASM1064, this might actually work just fine. On the other hand, there's a nontrivial risk that there could be a driver limit to the number of SATA AHCI are supported, so there could be risks here especially if you tried to add two or three of these to a system.