Biostar J1900NH3 to NAS help (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Lokasch@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Attention!! beginner here.

Just got my hands on this Motherboard for free:

https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/eol/introduction.php?S_ID=774#overview

Was thinking of converting it to a NAS. My plan is to connnect two 4TB hdds to it and run TrueNas. It won`t get a lot of traffic and speed is not really a concern.

But the problem is it only got two Sata connectors and one PCIE 2.0 x1 slot, so afaik no room for the OS.

What would be the best and safest way to connect another drive for the OS?

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[-] use-dashes-instead@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If you refuse to use the PCIe slot, then get a different board

[-] Lokasch@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

How could I utilise the PCIe Slot?

[-] use-dashes-instead@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Put a storage controller in it?

You'll be bandwidth constrained, but you're also getting what you paid for the board

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