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IIRC I saw an 8 port card for around £60-ish maybe? so that would be 8x4 SATA ports. or you could just go with a bigger capacity card in the first place if you fell like you might do that in the future. But for pci-e cards you can add as many as your motherboard would support theoretically. by the time that has filled up all 10 slots in the chassis bigger drives should be available and at a lower cost, so might be worth upgrading the drives rather than the chassis. Well TBH, if say you started out with 4x8tb, and then added drives as needed.
Diy external gpu enclosure mod#
what if i wanted to expand in the future, is it possible to get something that would allow for more drives over sas? and maybe an external enclosure seperate from the PC that would house a few more drives?Īhh right ok, then ill probably stay away from getting an old server unless i can mod the cooling to make it quieter. i think this is the most likely route ill go down. The cards go for around £40 or so on ebay for new cards. I personally don't see the point in hotswap bays, as they would rarely get used anyway, unless you have the PC in an inaccessible place that would be problematic to just pull the whole pc out to change drives if and when needed. Anyway, so with the HBA SAS card, it has 2x 8087 ports, that you can use breakout cables that turn each port into supporting upto 4x SATA drives. eg fractal design node 804, it's an m-ATX board for that though, which suits me as I like box-ish cases to fit into my media cupboard. Personally speaking I have and would get, an LSI 92ll-8i SAS expansion card, and get a normal PC case with space for 8 drives. And I'd need to find a cheap server case.Įven alternate suggestions on how I could complete this project avoiding the old PC or anything? I'm also willing to just rip the pc apart and put it into a server case with hotswap bays, but I'd still need the adapter to support that many drives.
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Ideally I would like the drives to be at full speed (150-200mbps of a normal 7200rpm drive) so I'm not sure what host interface the enclosure should use to take full advantage of that.Īnd I'm assuming I'd need a PCI adapter for whatever interface it uses? I just need to find a enclosure that will support around 8 or more drives and connects to a pc I'll keep running 24/7 running FreeNAS/unRaid.
Diy external gpu enclosure windows#
Probably going to run unRaid or FreeNAS on it, with Plex and a normal windows SMB share. Essentially what I'm trying to do is build a NAS/Home Server out of old PC parts lying around and old drives (maybe some new ones too). So I've got a pretty random request, I'm not really sure what I'm looking for.
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