Has anyone had any luck building a NAS with a PCIE adapter giving 4 SATA interfaces? I want to move away from my Synology box in favor of the Pine64 solution, but the guides I’m reading all talk about a dual-PCIE-SATA card.
I’ve heard software RAID is the way to go. My initial plan is 4x8TB with RAID 5. That’s what I’m using in my Synology currently.
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This list gives you an overview of PCIe devices and their compatibility. If I remember correctly there are some hardware bugs in the rk3399 which makes stock linux hiccup on some SATA-Card/Drive combinations, though it’s some time ago that I did fiddle with that. In my experience mrfixit2001’s kernel is stable in these secenarios.