Comment on Looking to upgrade my NAS need advice.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 week agoFor DIY, just about any setup would work fine as long as you put it in a case with lots of bays. Throw 2 or 3 of these in there* and you now have however many ports are on the motherboard (probably 2 or 4) plus 8-12 more ports available via the cards.
*I’m not recommending that specific card, just something that gives you SATA ports on a PCI-E card. Just pay attention to bandwidth bottlenecks on the cards. Here is a table of PCI-E speeds.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Followup; Not as cheap but there are M.2 to SATA cards available too, if your mb has no enoty PCIe but do have empty M.2 available.