SATA Upgrade, PCIE Sata Expansion Card

[Mikeygsxr750]

I found your Quote Nugent from last year,

Anyone running TrueNAS with this? ASUS Hyper M.2 DO or DO NOT?

So I am still kind of in the planning stages of my first TrueNAS build. I actually have installed it and gotten it running in a test environment but I'm having second thoughts about spinners and am thinking maybe I should go SSD. I have a bunch of questions around that BUT... really what I am...

www.truenas.com

So I need to find out if the board ASrock b450m hdv 4 supports bifurcation...
I haven't been able to find anything saying it does or does not just yet...

 

[NugentS]

Look in the BIOS - try to find it there

 

[Mikeygsxr750]

So I found a different Motherboard, getting the b450m out to check the bios. It's an LGA 1155 board, that would support my current i7-2600 and RAM from the optiplex, and it has 5 data ports, one being an eSata... would this suffice???

 

[NugentS]

Are those PCI slots?

 

[Mikeygsxr750]

I've decided to go with b450m board.
The Intel is just getting a little outdated.

 

[Mikeygsxr750]

So...I did some sketchy sh!t.. du da du da.

I reinstalled my 3200g into the asrock b450m. I literally drilled out the rivets on my optiplex drive sled caddy. I sheet metal screwed them under my 2 x 5.25 drive removable sleds.
And then... the sketch-iest part, I shucked a bad Seagate External drive, stole the USB 3.1 controller, and put it on my Boot SSD. Plugged into a USB 3.1 port.
For now.
It worked great, fresh installed, and imported config, added the 2 new 4tb drives to the pool in another mirror vdev.