Hi Guys,

I'm thinking to set up my own NAS using my old computer using FreeNAS.

The problem is that my mother board is the MSI MS-7104. This mobo only has 2 SATA ports. My questions are,

1. can I use SATA 3 HDD (preferably 2TB) on this?
2. Will it get the same data transfer rate (3 Gb/s)?

I also did a research on SAS controller card which can hold up to 8 SATA HDD.

3. Do you guys know any of these cards that runs on PCI slots?
4. Will I get the SATA 3 data transfer rate if the SAS controller PCI slot?

My budget to get new hardware and HDD is below RM1,000.

Your inputs are greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Thanks

The reason I need about 3 HDD is because I needed to do a RAID5 back-up and it requires 3 HDD to do so.