Good morning. First, I want to generously thank all of the folks that have developed and contributed to the development of Openmediavault, the plug-ins, the tutorials and their very helpful and reliable support through this forum and elsewhere. Though I just registered, I have spent long hours pouring through the forum as I started my NAS build and committed to using OMV as the OS. Thanks to all of the above the build, install, configuration and set-up went flawlessly.
I have one hardware support question though - that might be better suited to the Linux or Debian support sites, but here it is: The NAS Case I have (which I highly recommend to anyone contemplating a new build) provides hotswap trays for up to 8 3.5" HDD's (and 3 2.5 SDD's) The Motherboard (which I also highly recommend) provides 6 onboard SATA ports. One of my ports is committed to the system SSD, and the other 5 are committed to 5 of my media HDD's. In order to expand my storage for 2 more HDD's (which I need despite already having 20TB), I have installed a Startech 2 port SATA 6gbs PCI-E Card (4x) on the motherboard. I haven't found a suitable deal on two more 4TB drives yet, so no effort to use them, but the product says it is compatible with Windows, OSX and Linux kernel 2.6.36 or above. Manual says no driver install for Windows 8 and above because of native support, but has a driver disc and instructions to install for Windows 7 and below. Says nothing about the Linux install or drivers. I am taking that to mean that the card is natively supported in the Linux kernel or above. Has anybody else used such a card (I believe it uses Marvell controllers) - or know whether there is native support?
Thanks!