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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/mustangprime on 2023-09-21 09:24:53.

I’ve run out of ports on my LSI 9207i card, but I’d like to add another drive that I have knocking about.

Is there anything “wrong” with sticking a drive on the motherboard’s SATA ports and having the rest on the LSI card? The plan is ultimately to get another LSI card, but for that I’ll need to replace my motherboard and possibly some other bits so that’ll have to wait for now. Alternative is to get an HBA card with more ports, but expense is still the blocker for now. Just looking for something that’ll allow me to add one more drive until I can upgrade.

Before I got the LSI card I had multiple drives on the motherboard’s SATA ports and performance wasn’t great, mostly if I recall, from when drives were being accessed simultaneously - especially parity checks. I’m hoping that a single drive on the on-board ports will mean that performance is still OK.