Recent content by Chefboyardee

The more I thought about this, the more I convinced myself that I just needed a full 8-channel HBA using both miniSAS cables. I bought an H220 on eBay and sure enough, the SAS expander works perfectly now. To answer my original question: bad user!

I've been running FreeNAS on an old HP Microserver for years now, and I finally decided to upgrade to something more "heavy metal". I'm just now starting to come up to speed on this type of hardware, so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious. I settled on an HP DL380e G8 with the 12-bay...