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  1. Just a quick update regarding the drivers: after some researching, I figured out the chip used on the mPCI to SATA adapter is an ASM1061. After some quick Googling, I'v found that the drivers for this chip ARE in fact present on FreeBSD
  2. It's no problem About the drivers: I can't confirm for a fact they will work out of box myself as I stumbled across the SATA cards merely hours before I posted. According to the Amazon reviews from customers using Linux with the cards, it has no issues and is Plug and Play. this was one of the customer reviews: "Simple device, has a fast controller. I use it in Linux for software raid / ZFS. No driver needed, the additional controller just showed up where it should, on reboot. Recent vintage Linux, Kernel v3.1. I assume the driver was built into the Linux kernel already so nothing to install." JunOS according to Wikipedia is based on FreeBSD, which is similar to Linux, but not the same. I'm hoping the cards have drivers present in FreeBSD, and I feel it's somewhat likely, but again, not guaranteed. I found them because I'v got an older(Atom) mini Dell laptop which can't/doesn't do much. Opening one up revealed the one I have in particular has 3 mPCI connectors After I found this out, I came here because I plan to make it run XPE, but I noticed this post which is somewhat similar to what I plan to do. (a Laptop is an SBC after all )
  3. Great Idea! The Raspi and other Pi and similar variants all use ARM processors and as such incompatible with EXP requiring X86/X64 processors. But! Not all SBCs are ARM based! As you mentioned, A Latte Panda(an Intel Atom based SBC) WOULD work, but I wouldn't recommend it. it is lacking in ports severely. (Plus some huge overheating problems iv seen) If I were to try and do this, Id probably pick up one of the AMD/Intel Embedded processor motherboards from NewEgg (listing) I personally like the options this one provides: *Pretty cheap at ~$75 *DC barrel Plug that can run from 12 or 19 volts (Should allow you to use an old Laptop Powerbrick to run the thing) *Uses DDR3 SODIMM memory for tiny form factor *2 on-board SATAIII(6 Gb/s) ports *Gigabit LAN * Relativley powerful Dual-Core Celeron processor *2 miniPCI ports I think my favorite part is the 2 miniPCI ports. Why? because these exist which would allow you to add two extra SATAIII ports PER MiniPCI port!! (Also a half-length version is available if you wanted to add 2 SATA cards as one of the ports is full length and the other one is half length) If you were to populate the two PCI connectors you could effectively use 6 Drives in the build
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