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philanthropicoctopus@philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club

Considerations when buying an LSI HBA?

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

randombullet@randombullet@programming.dev

Replying to @⁨philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club⁩

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.

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.

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