Advice on PCI SATA controller card

[Ethnod]

I've an unraid server with a B460M-A PRO (MS-7C88) MB in it and looking to expand the storage.

It's just mainly used for plex, storage, backups and soon Nextcloud

 

Any advice on the best card to get? nothing currently in the PCI slots

[Inception9269]

7 minutes ago, Ethnod said:

I've an unraid server with a B460M-A PRO (MS-7C88) MB in it and looking to expand the storage.

It's just mainly used for plex, storage, backups and soon Nextcloud

 

Any advice on the best card to get? nothing currently in the PCI slots

I put together an unraid server somewhat recently, and was about to order some pcie sata cards to allow me to use more drives, but cancelled that plan after reading online that apparently unraid has issues with sata cards. Apparently if it's only 1 or 2 slots max things will be fine, but if you're using a sata card that has any more than that, then you're gonna have problems (apparently). Apparently the way to get around that is to get a SAS controller and sas to sata cables to go with it. That apparently will let you expand your storage without any issues.

[Inception9269]

Found this forum post that explains it well enough.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/122429-sassata-controller/