Comment on Question about harware Raid vs Truenas pools
Krill@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Do not use a raid controller with Truenas. Use a HBA such as an LSI 9300 or 9207 (old but fine for HDD). Truemas manages the drive itself and any barrier to that (like device managed SMR drives and Rains controllers) means Truenas does not know where the data is, and you are likely to get data corruption at some point.
mongooseofrevenge@lemmy.world 1 week ago
On a second look it actually came with one of these cards. It just wasn’t connected. The cable setup unfortunately only let’s me hook up half the drives for now but that works for the time being.
Krill@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Get a used adaptec arc 82885T. It only needs molex to power it, and it allows the HBA to connect to up to several hundred data drives. The documentation is straightforward to understand.
An example: ebay.us/m/SYvAxO