Hi everyone

I’m looking to expand my storage. I have a case capable of 8 bays and I don’t think I’ll exceed that soon (currently at 3 drives).

I bought a m.2 slot with a bunch of sata ports on it but it doesn’t work. I’ve researched and read an HBA is a much better solution anyway.

If I’m going to get the HBA I might as well run all 8 ports on it.

Aside from the clearance on the card in the case, are there any other considerations I need to he aware of? I justbeant to get something that works from the get go. For my uses I have a good amount of apps and I stream media from the server

CPU- i5-10400f 2.90ghz

MOBO - asrock h570m-itx/ac

RAM - gskill f4-3200c16-8gvkb

GPU - Quadro k620 (gm107gl) rev a2

CASE - Jonsbo N3

  • afk_strats@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    I have mine running in a consumer case and, despite it having a heat sink, I found it was overheating and turning off. Consider your airflow and put a fan near or on it if possible

    • just some guy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Same thing happened to me, but with a rosewill case. Luckily there’s a 3d file for my card clip a fan to the heating and keep it cool. Unfortunately ALL the noctuas already in the case weren’t enough. OP be prepared to have a dedicated fan for the card

  • randombullet@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I’ve bought mine off TheArtofServer. You can ask the seller questions and they’ll happily help. Not to shill but the guy is super passionate about the HBA business.

    I currently went overboard and got a tri mode LSI which is quite pricey. But it allows me to mix and match SATA, SAS, and U.2/3

    Broadcom 9500-8i Tri-Mode is the model.

    https://www.ebay.com/str/theartofserver

    For sas and sata only I have a LSI 9305-16i for my big server. The 9305 runs quite cooler, but you pay more upfront.

  • 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    The specs of your motherboard says M2_1 slot only works with 11th gen CPU but yours is 10th gen. That could be why the SATA board doesn’t work.

  • MuttMutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    If you are intending to run software raid then you want something that can be flashed to Initiator Target or IT mode. There is a JBOD function for some RAID cards and you DO NOT want that because it does not send all the same data that software raid wants from the dive. You also do not want to waste money on a card with RAM or Battery Backups since they are really designed for hardware RAID.

    A SAS3008 card will really be what you are looking for.

    https://www.ebay.com/shop/lsi-sas-3008?_nkw=lsi+sas+3008

    With a SAS backplane or expanders you can connect 256 drives.

    • white_nrdy@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      Thank you for teaching me what “IT” stands for in this case… I always assumed it was “Information Technology” and thought it was weird but never bothered to look it up 🤣

      • MuttMutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        No problem.

        I try to explain things as best as I can so everyone can learn. I’ve been using TrueNAS since the FreeNAS 9.2 era so about 13 years now. When I started I had already dealt with a ton of issues and was searching for better than multiple single drives. My first real build was a Dual Xeon X5690 setup in an X8DT6-F so learning this about SAS was really important.

        Sadly there are so many acronyms out there (and growing all the time) that is getting hard to just read the news let alone anything else without a little help.