Azza
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Yes, but the whole server is only £20 more than buying the CPU on it's own. Also, you can fit more drives in the T20 - 2x 2.5" in the optical bay and 4x 3.5" in the normal bays, plus there's space to add one 3.5" or two 2.5" drives in the floppy drive hanger. There's also room to add an internal drive rack if you have some DIY skills.
I have 2x 2.5" drives as ESXi datastores and 4X 3.5" drives passed-though to DSM. All I had to buy was a couple of SATA power splitters.
berwhale, what controller cards are you using?
I've just got a T20, and want to move over my 4 hard drives from my N54L, and add a couple more but it seems the controller card I got pexsat32 and it (https://www.startech.com/uk/Cards-Adapters/HDD-Controllers/SATA-Cards/2-Port-PCI-Express-SATA-6-Gbps-Controller-Card~PEXSAT32) doesn't seem to be compatible with DSM 5.2 as I can't see any hard drives in DSM when it's added to pass-through.
ESXi - datastores vs RDM vs pass through disks
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Okay cool, ordered the same one but Syba branded from Amazon, should have it this evening.
Assume I should just be able to plug in my existing drives and pass-through to a VM that is of the same DSM version number and the volume will show up fine?