Another major advantage of an HBA is how naturally it scales. Consumer motherboards usually top out at six to eight SATA ...
A lot of users in this forum build their own NASs, and many of them use non-mainstream OSs like BSD (TrueNAS/FreeNAS), so compatibility can be an issue. Also, sometimes we're constrained by our builds ...
Been looking at getting a little NAS box, like a Drobo or Netgear 4 bay for a bit and happened into a bunch of free 2TB SAS drives. Looking out at what is available I'm not seeing much in the way of ...