HBA

I have a PCIe slot (electric x4 and physical x16). I plan to put an HBA SAS PCIe Gen 2.0 external card on it for my Plex server. The external JBOD that I have has a total of 8 disks connected using a SAS Expander. I want to know if it will matter if I use a single port, dual port, or 4 port...

Hello I'm at a stump. I have a LSI SAS9200-16e that connects my 45 JBOD enclosure to my server. Motherboard is a SUPERMICRO X8DTH-IF If the JBOD is turned OFF then the computer will start and get into windows but obviously then you don't have your hard drives from the enclosure. If the JBOD...

The title pretty much says it all. I was wondering what would happen to a software raid zfs array in freenas if the sata controller on the motherboard or an HBA the drives were connected to happened to fail. Would it be as simple as replacing the HBA or the motherboard and everything will...

Hello I have an old pc sitting around just missing HDD's and a PSU (Here's the rest: link) I wasn't sure which I should make, a home windows 10 server or a NAS. The idea of having a small box that acts as a NAS that I can hook up to my UPS sounds really nice but at the same time it would be...