Lack of SATA ports, and sometimes lack of a PCI/PCIe slot which you can put a standard SATA card in mean you often are restricted to 2-disk models of RAID/Mirror filestore.
zimablade, for all its faults (USB-C power FFS. there are pins on the mobo for 12V direct in, if you want to risk it) and the low power budget to actually run drives.. has the PCIe slot. It means its just a tiny PC, intel arch, quad core, 16GB memory and .. a real PCIe slot which means you can run a real HBA.
I get round the power budget using an old ATX psu with the pins set to always-on, in the 24 pin ATX mobo connector.
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Lack of SATA ports, and sometimes lack of a PCI/PCIe slot which you can put a standard SATA card in mean you often are restricted to 2-disk models of RAID/Mirror filestore.
zimablade, for all its faults (USB-C power FFS. there are pins on the mobo for 12V direct in, if you want to risk it) and the low power budget to actually run drives.. has the PCIe slot. It means its just a tiny PC, intel arch, quad core, 16GB memory and .. a real PCIe slot which means you can run a real HBA.
I get round the power budget using an old ATX psu with the pins set to always-on, in the 24 pin ATX mobo connector.