Hello everyone,
I recently purchased an ASRock N100M motherboard with the following setup in mind:
Thank you in advance.
I recently purchased an ASRock N100M motherboard with the following setup in mind:
- Use an ASM1166 M.2 to 5x SATA adapter to connect 4 SATA drives.
- Attach 2x 240GB SSDs directly to the motherboard over SATA.
- Install Proxmox as a bootable RAIDZ set on the 4 SATA drives.
- Add the 2 SSDs as mirrored ZFS cache devices.
- The ASRock N100M doesn't recognize the ASM1166 M.2 device at the BIOS level—it doesn't detect it at all.
- I can see the 4 SATA drives attached via the M.2 card.
- I can even form them into a zpool.
- Boot off the 4x SATA RAIDZ pool for redundancy.
- Use the SSDs solely to accelerate the system (as ZFS cache devices).
- The ASRock N100M motherboard has available PCIe slots, and I'm open to using one of them to attach a SATA HBA (Host Bus Adapter), even if it requires an additional purchase.
- Is this approach fruitless?
- Can the ASRock N100M motherboard not boot off this type of adapter in the M.2 slot?
- Would using a SATA HBA in a PCIe slot be a viable solution?
- Does anyone have experience with this setup or suggestions on how to achieve my desired configuration?
Thank you in advance.