Upgraded: 6th HDD don't show up. Because of M.2?

  • Hi,


    because of running out of storage I decided to add another two 3TB Drives to my existing four 3TB drives. I needed to adapt the 5,25" Power cable to get enough SATA Power to the 6 drives and I plugged in the fifth and sixth SATA cable.
    Thats how it looks like now:

    (I know. one HDD is not connected, but this was just to test if HDD is dead. So unconnected HDD is not the fault )


    Every SATA Port of the Mainboard is filled up but only 5 show up..



    Is the SATA M.2 using one of these slots?


    If yes, what would you recommend?


    Thanks!!

    Version: 4.1.34-1 (Arrakis)
    Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64
    Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS
    3,5 GHz Intel Pentium G4560
    8 GB RAM
    Systemdisk: M.2 mit 32 GB
    RAID 5: 6x 3 TB

  • Some motherboards have a shared SATA/M.2. Check with your MB vendor for the specs.

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    OMV AMD64 7.x on headless Chenbro NR12000 1U 1x 8m Quad Core E3-1220 3.1GHz 32GB ECC RAM.

  • Hi, thanks for the reply.



    this is what it says at the website. The Board is a GA-B250M-DS running with a Pentium G4560.


    If it is the Boards limit, what Card could I add to get the 6th HDD working?

    Version: 4.1.34-1 (Arrakis)
    Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64
    Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS
    3,5 GHz Intel Pentium G4560
    8 GB RAM
    Systemdisk: M.2 mit 32 GB
    RAID 5: 6x 3 TB

  • There are numerous add-in cards available to add SATA ports. Look around on Amazon, ebay, newegg and maybe others for choices.

    --
    Google is your friend and Bob's your uncle!


    OMV AMD64 7.x on headless Chenbro NR12000 1U 1x 8m Quad Core E3-1220 3.1GHz 32GB ECC RAM.

  • thanks!
    is there any hardware what works out of the box? Or do they all work?

    Version: 4.1.34-1 (Arrakis)
    Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64
    Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS
    3,5 GHz Intel Pentium G4560
    8 GB RAM
    Systemdisk: M.2 mit 32 GB
    RAID 5: 6x 3 TB

  • If your M.2 is SATA replacing it with NVME/PCI-E should free up the sixth SATA port.


    I bought a 2 port SATA PCI-E card from AliExpress very cheap and has been working fine for several months.

    Inwin MS04 case with 315 W PSU

    ASUS Prime H310i-Plus R2.0 board

    Two port PCI-E SATA card

    16GB Kingston DDR4

    Intel Pentium Coffee Lake G5400 CPU

    Samsung Evo M.2 256GB OS drive

    4x4TB WD Red NAS drives + 1x4TB + 1x5TB Seagate drives - MergerFS pool

    Seagate 5TB USB drives - SnapRAID parity x 2

  • Why not just add 8 connections... Something like:


    https://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-S…060b05:g:x2EAAOSwD5td-tQs


    Much cleaner cabling and would use your case to its full potential of 8 drives.


    -Mike

    OMV 6.x
    Supermicro X9DRH-7F
    2X-XEON E5-2660V2
    128GB PC3-10600R ECC REG
    Supermicro SATA DOM 64GB
    Areca ARC-1883IX-24
    24X - WD WD80EFZX
    NORCO RPC-4224 4U
    Eaton 5PX 1500

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  • Thank you very much for your help and ideas.
    Changing the SATA M.2 to a NVME is a good idea I could do anyway.
    Is there a good and easy to understand tutorial for migrating a installation? I use some kind of plugin to backup the system onto a thump drive. But I never understood how to actually Bude the backup, in case of failure or in case of changing the boot drive. ?(



    for the other argument of 8 drives I bought a SATA card. I hope it works for the moment.




    Thanks a lot! :thumbup:

    Version: 4.1.34-1 (Arrakis)
    Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64
    Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS
    3,5 GHz Intel Pentium G4560
    8 GB RAM
    Systemdisk: M.2 mit 32 GB
    RAID 5: 6x 3 TB

  • You can create a Clonezilla bootable USB drive, boot from it and image the existing M.2 to temporary storage then swap in the new NVME and write the image to this. This approach may fail if the new M.2 is smaller than the existing one. You'll find tutorials on Clonezilla easily.


    There are other approroaches but worth learning this method for future system backups etc.

    Inwin MS04 case with 315 W PSU

    ASUS Prime H310i-Plus R2.0 board

    Two port PCI-E SATA card

    16GB Kingston DDR4

    Intel Pentium Coffee Lake G5400 CPU

    Samsung Evo M.2 256GB OS drive

    4x4TB WD Red NAS drives + 1x4TB + 1x5TB Seagate drives - MergerFS pool

    Seagate 5TB USB drives - SnapRAID parity x 2

  • Thank all of you! I managed to understand and get clonezilla clone working and added another 4 SATA Ports via PCI Express Card. All 6 drives are here now.
    Now I can start to extend my RAID.


    :thumbup::thumbup:<3


    Version: 4.1.34-1 (Arrakis)
    Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64
    Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS
    3,5 GHz Intel Pentium G4560
    8 GB RAM
    Systemdisk: M.2 mit 32 GB
    RAID 5: 6x 3 TB

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