Hi, I am currently looking for an 8 port sata controller that is compatible with freenas. I have found the Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 but am not sure if it is even compatible? Does anyone know the answer? Also is there another alternative? I currently have 8 sata ports on my motherboard that is an msi P55-CD53. It only has one pci express 16x socket and three pci express 1x sockets. I aim to have 15 hard drives at some point running through my nas box and using software raid to manage them. I just need the bare hard disks to show up in freenas so I can raid them.
The mentioned sata controller is this:
The mentioned sata controller is this: