What’s the storage capacity on this motherboard? I know with their office PCs, you only get 2 SATA ports and typically only a single PCIE slot so you’re forced to choose between a GPU or LSI SAS card. I have a huge media library so this was one of my primary concerns when I specced mine out years ago.
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qaz@lemmy.world 10 months agoUse case is a few simple VMs, Nextcloud, storage, maybe a minecraft server and probably something like Jellyfin later on.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 10 months ago
qaz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m limited to 1 2.5" drive and a m.2 ssd.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
This will be fine. But assume you’ll want to swap out the hard drives in the future for more, larger, NAS appropriate disks.
Hopfgeist@feddit.de 10 months ago
If you’re as paranoid as me about data integrity, SAS drives on a host adapter card in “Initiator Target” (IT) mode with write-cache on the disks disabled is the safest. It will degrade performance when writing many small files concurrently, but not as badly as with SATA drives. With a good error-correcting redundant system such as ZFS you can probably get away with enabled write cache in most cases. Until you can’t.