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Can't figure out if Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming-ITX/ac mobo supports NVME m.2 drives as boot to free up 5th bay for RAIDz2 (refurbished drives)
 | It's an odd thing, the site and specs for the motherboard are here: https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/Fatal1ty%20Z270%20Gaming-ITXac/index.asp#Specification and the documentation is here: https://download.asrock.com/Manual/Fatal1ty%20Z270%20Gaming-ITXac.pdfFor storage, the documentation shows the following: I currently have a Jonsbo N2 case setup with 4x 10TB drives in a RAIDz1, and a 2.5" SSD occupying the 5th slot and SATA port. I'm running refurbished drives (sorry if I triggered you and you now have coffee on your keyboard - it's just a Plex server) so I'd like to get a 5th drive and rebuild this as a RAIDz2. But it's not clear to me if I can boot TrueNAS from that "Ultra m.2 socket" using an NVMe drive like this: https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-128GB-P34A60-SP128GBP34A60M28/dp/B09HMWH1DG Or if I need a SATA m.2 like this (this is only to boot TrueNAS off of and to free up the 5th slot in my case for a 5th drive): https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-L50361-001-SNS8350DES3-128GP-Workstation/dp/B09YM2236W/ I'm currently using 4.34TB of space on my NAS, and have 2 backups (onto 5TB portable drives - dumb idea) and I've also got a 1TB WD_Black Gen 4 NVMe m.2 drive so transferring the data shouldn't be a problem rebuilding from RAIDz1 to RAIDz2. It's just that refurbished drives tend to fail, and the extra redundancy would be good (so a scrub task doesn't fry a drive and leave my NAS degraded for a month while I RMA). Plus, right now there's a deal where 12TB refurbished HGST Ultrastars are $75 from goHardDrive (who's been great with their 5 year warranty so far - 2 DOA drives out of 4, 1 toasted due to scrub. Both times I sent an email, got a label the same day or next, I shipped the drives coast to coast in a week, they shipped the replacements coast to coast in a week). 1 final question for you bros and fine folk - Using a 1x 12TB drive with 4x 10TB drives in a RAIDz2 is all good, right? Thanks for any help - I love this community and hobby! [link] [comments] |
