Supermicro X11SSL-CF question

[Celt]

Board supports 14 drives. I planned on doing two vdevs of 7 drives each. This means that one drive of a vdev would be on the LSI chip via a breakout cable.

Has anyone had any problems with this, or does it act like a SATA port once it is in HBA or IT mode.

 

[Chris Moore]

Board supports 14 drives. I planned on doing two vdevs of 7 drives each. This means that one drive of a vdev would be on the LSI chip via a breakout cable.

Has anyone had any problems with this, or does it act like a SATA port once it is in HBA or IT mode.

I have used a SAS HBA and a regular SATA controller to connect drives to the same pool without regard to which drives were in a particular vdev in relation to the controller they were connected to. FreeNAS does not care what the data path is as long as it is supported hardware and the operating system can reliably access the drive.

 

[Ericloewe]

You can mix and match controllers as much as you desire, as long as they're all compatible (and good) - so Intel SATA and LSI/Broadcom/Avago SAS HBAs.

 

[Stux]

Board supports 14 drives.

FWIW, it supports a lot more than 14 drives, but you need to add a SAS expander to add more than 14 drives.