Got one of these bad boys coming (i7 8700). Planning to add 2x3.5in 10tb HDDs and upgrade ram to 64GB. Excited to get to work on it - heard a lot of good things about this rig.

Hopefully someone can answer these for me:

  • On HP’s spec sheet it says the max HDD size is 2TB. Do I need to do anything to the BIOS to allow bigger drives?
  • I’ve heard it’s possible to add a third 3.5in HDD in the DVD drive bay. Can anyone confirm? Do you need a bay adapter or whatever?
  • Planning to run TrueNas in a Proxmox VM to manage the HDDs, either RAID 0 or 1. Do I need a PCIe HBA card?
  • Any other tips or tricks?
  • Krill@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    Running Truenas as a VM in prixmox requires passing through the storage controller and blacklisting it from prixmox, so yes, you likely need the HBA.