Yes, I’d go with the Marvel as well, I’m just not sure it’ll work in the WiFi port. Wondering if someone’s done something similar…
Anyways - powering the drives is really simple. I plan on using one of these external power supplies NAVILOCK 41410 - Navilock 4-Pin Molex power supply that...
I’m actually looking into doing the same thing. Running multiple HDDs with one of these cards: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNoTxkC
It has a Marvell chip in it which is both a SATA to PCIe bridge and a SATA controller. The one I linked to actually supports up to 8 drives which is bonkers.
I have an HP T630 thin client and a couple of Seagate Ironwolf HDDs and would like to build a cheap NAS with TrueNAS. Of course the T630 doesn't have any SATA ports, so I need some kind of HBA to be able to connect the HDDs. So my questions are what's the best one to buy and would the ones I've...
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