It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Joyride84 on 2024-11-26 23:20:24.

Hi, I'm thinking of installing a PCIe SATA expansion card (such as the LSI 9207-8i) in a new TrueNAS build. (I know...it's a bottleneck.) Can/should I connect the host OS drive to that card, so that one more storage drive can connect directly to the motherboard? Or does it not initialize soon enough during boot, for that to work? Or for that matter, is this a horrible idea for some other reason?

I have some SATA headers on the motherboard, but not quite enough. My thinking is that if I must introduce the bottleneck of an expansion card, at least the OS drive should experience less throughput than a storage drive, during heavy read/write operations. Is that reasonable? Or do I have no idea what I'm talking about?

Thanks!

Edit: Typo