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I'll second the recommendation for the E3-1265L v2 as an upgrade for the Gen8. Note that the onboard SATA/firmware RAID controller on the Gen8 only supports 6G

I'll second the recommendation for the E3-1265L v2 as an upgrade for the Gen8. Note that the onboard SATA/firmware RAID controller on the Gen8 only supports 6Gb/s SATA on two drive bays; the other two (and the SATA interface to the optical drive) are 3Gb/s. While this probably doesn't matter if you're talking about spinning rust NAS, it seems worth pointing out. The drive bays are perfectly capable of 6Gb/s — both SATA and SAS — with a different controller; HP Smart Array P222, also cheap on eBay, is the officially supported option.

justinclift 2y ago
Yeah. It's a real shame there's only a single PCIe slot (PCIe v2 x8) in them. Ideally I'd like to put both a sas controller + 10GbE+ network card in the things, but it's just not possible. :( --- Actually, it might be possible after all: • https://www.ebay.com/itm/184105150543 https://www.ebay.com/itm/184105150543 • https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/unique-oem-dual-lsi-2308-mellanox-connectx-3-vpi-combo-expansion-cards.30532/ https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/unique-oem... This could be a fun experiment. :)