Recent content by evanmarc

Good to know. I'm starting to lean toward getting a non-hot swappable case. I can get a better quality case and I don't have to worry about the hardware failing. I'm looking at updating the drives to enterprise at this point. I want this system to be low maintenance and while consumer drive...

I'm glad to be wrong. :) That means I can drop the controller, hookup the HDD to the SAS (SAS-to-SATA cables) and pass the 3008 to TrueNAS. If I'm understanding the manual correctly, that means I have SATA 0-7 available for other drives.

I wasn't aware of SAS expanders, but that sounds like a much better option. You are correct. The plan is to pass the HDD to TrueNAS and have the host control the m.2 (proxmox) and SSDs (VMs).

If my research is correct, the 2 SAS and 6 of the SATA ports use the came chips so I'm limited to either SAS or SATA. I would love to be wrong because that opens the number of drives for me. The controller serves 2 purposes: Gives me enough SATA ports to connect all my hard drives; and Allows...

Honestly, I picked a controller that would allow me to include my 8 HHD with 2 SSDs. However, I have no problem switching to a different controller (like the LSI 9211-8i). It looks like I would need to get 2 cards to support the the 10 drives.

Hello everyone, I'm getting ready to build my first server (with actual server parts) and want to make sure I'm not overlooking anything. This will replace my existing i7-3770 server and will use as a NAS and running data automation tasks. OS: Proxmox (w/ TrueNas Core VM)...