[timwilky]

not reading specs.

Need a new NAS.

So buys a 5 bay chassis. Asrock N3150-ITX motherboards supporting 4 SATA, 16GB SO-DIMMS, 5 WD 3TB Red disks and a PCI-E controller for msata/5th sata.

I already had a 256GB msata for boot in the gubbins box.

Starts to put it together and FFS.

The sata/msata controller requires at least x2 PCI-E, yes the motherboard I bought is x1 PCI-E.

So motherboard swap time for the PC on the tv with a full PCI-E interface, so I don't need to buy another board/processor. But that one has only 4GB. So off and buy another 16GB in DIMMS this time. TV PC is now overkill in memory. But it all goes together.

Start trying to use the new NAS and data errors. Run SMART diags on the alerting disk and no fault found. Swap cables and it is still alerting.

So move the SATA onto an unused on my sata controller and everything hunky dory.

So I have a duff sata port on my old mother board.

This money saving NAS has ended up costing me, simply because I didn't read properly the spec of the Asrock N3150-ITX motherboard before I bought it. The board is well past its warranty, lesson learned. Next time don't be in such a hurry. Read first.