It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/burnthew1tchh on 2025-04-25 00:41:12.

Pretty new to set ups but have learned a lot of ZFS stuff. We have a Storinator XL60 Enhanced with a X10SRL-F motherboard. My boss wants to see if we can add caching and we have 4 M.2 2280 Gen4x4 NvMe SSD's. But i'm not sure how i will go about adding them.

Right now I have:

4 PCIe 3.0 x8 slots are occupied by SAS HBAs (I assume this is for our HDD's)

My senior's (who has quit) plan was to

Remove 2 HBA. Add a SAS expander maybe? Use the 2 HBA cards to support all 60 drives through the expander

This will free 2 PCIe slots for quad-M.2 PCIe adapter.

But i'm not sure how that will affect our