When I received the card, I performed a firmware upgrade following this guide from. I also grabbed two cables mini-SAS (SFF-8087) to SATA cables from AliExpress for around AUD $8. Searching each one on eBay, I found the HP H220 for around AUD $55. I decided I wanted a SAS2308 or newer card as they support SATA3 (6Gb/s) speeds for my SSDs. Thanks to the ServeTheHome forums, I was able to go through all a list of all models and their OEM counterparts. HP H220 (LSI SAS2308)Īdding more SATA ports is an easy task with a RAID card running in IT mode. My Supermicro X10SRi-F motherboard also has only 10 SATA ports. I needed to add and extra 1x3.5" and 2x2.5" drives used for my security cameras and the operating system. My Norco RPC-431 only supports 9x3.5" drives and 1x2.5" drive. Docker containers aren't supported on FreeNAS Get more drives into my already cramped server.The act of merging application, storage and network devices is known as hyper-converged computing This excellent diagram below from helixstorm outlines the different types of infrastructures possible. I decided the best action was to combine my application and storage server together. If I swapped the hardware out with the application server, the combination of 32GB of RAM and 72TB of raw disks would have made FreeNAS/ZFS unstable. It didn't need its 128GB of RAM and Intel Xeon E5 CPU for that. The storage server was way more powerful than the application server yet acted as an archive and used infrequently. In one of my first ever posts, I shared my all-in-one server which has since been split into a separate application server running pure Docker containers and a 72TB FreeNAS storage server.
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