The software of the LSI card I own is in the picture (I am on mobile so I unfortunately can’t see the full graph of the cards he tested that showed they work). It was plug and play with my current windows 11 build (also worked fine on trunas and unraid):
MSI H510I pro
I5-10400
Corsair LPX 16GB
M.2 4 TB Mushkin Alpha
HBA LSI 9207 https://www.ebay.com/itm/164306746346?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=0zSkXENAR4O&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=P7ZAkXL-RmS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
6 Crucial 4 TB MX500’s
1 Crucial 250 GB MX500 (OS Drive)
Corsair SFX platinum 450 watt
Silverstone CS01-HS
I only run 8 programs:
Stable bit drive pool (6 4tb drives and m.2 in pool as one drive)
Stable bit scanner (every 30-35 days hard scan at slow speeds, 14-15 days quick scan for compromised blocks)
Prowlarr
Sonarr
Radarr
Lidarr
Deluge (Downloads to pool then sonarr does its job, with auto remove plus plugin removing after 24 HRs)
Plex
I need to purchase a dirt cheap 2 TB SSD for all my downloads (split up the writes and reads). Now with this build in mind do you think I should be fine? Or do you believe I might end up running into a problem? I have tried unraid (crap), installed trunas (permissions are a pain to set idk why), even did a simple Linux setup but couldn’t figure out how to do a simple raid setup. I want to setup either a raid5 or a raid6, I am thinking of picking up one more 4tb drive and then just putting the 2tb drive on the inside with a small strip of double sided tape. Do you think I should stay how I am and just do these small additions or do I look more into swapping over?
Oh before I forget the reason why I have a full SSD server is because it lives in my semi truck with me. I wish I could have 3.5 in 16TB drives but unfortunately all the bumps and such on the road will end up just killing and burning my money. I do have a “NAS” at home a friend of mine built me a while back with 4x16TB sea gate EXOs for cold storage.