pschatz100
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Well, I'm not certain that you understand all the performance issues. Hard disks transfer data at 150 - 200MB/s more-or-less, so the SATA interface and the pcie speed will not be your bottleneck. Spinning disks don't come anywhere near to fully utilizing a SATA III (6 GBs) interface. Only matters for SSD's. A Gen3 pcie x1 would be fast enough.
If the card I suggested works on your system, you could still put 4 disks on the motherboard and one disk on the PCIe card to make a 5 disk array.
However, there is no doubt that the ASRock motherboard would be a better choice. For one thing, it has an Intel network interface which will be more reliable than the Realtek nic on the MSI board. Hopefully, you are convinced by now that the MSI board is a bad choice for TrueNAS.
Anyways, good luck.
If the card I suggested works on your system, you could still put 4 disks on the motherboard and one disk on the PCIe card to make a 5 disk array.
However, there is no doubt that the ASRock motherboard would be a better choice. For one thing, it has an Intel network interface which will be more reliable than the Realtek nic on the MSI board. Hopefully, you are convinced by now that the MSI board is a bad choice for TrueNAS.
Anyways, good luck.
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