Hello all,
I've always liked to have a few hdd's in my machine and over the years I've hit the cap of the 8 sata ports on my motherboard and just dealt with it.
Fast forward to now and my job is decomming a site and we have a slew of 2TB SAS drives. There are a few 3.84TB SSD's they put to the side for a lab and I'd love to try and get my hands on 1 or 2 of those.
But regardless, I have several 256GB ssd's I've picked up over the years. 1 of my 2TB with plex media died and I've had enough and think its time to finally start making backups and mirroring stuff. I don't like the idea of RAID really since to my knowledge it was hardware controlled and a horror to move around. .
So I heard about an HBA card could give me SAS support in addition to just more available ports for whatever.
So where do I go from here? Its a standard desktop pc, asus z170 pro-gaming motherboard.
my dilemma is in trying to research this Im going in circles now. So many variations, some apparently are all just vendor differences in firmware, etc.
Pcie2.0 vs 3.0 which would be a factor if I do get some SAS SSDs.
Also I assume in this case windows or whatevers built in RAID1 would be sufficient?
I did also pick up an r720 server but I dont really know what Im doing but from what I can piece together it has a perc h710i which doesnt allow passthru/IT. Also not sure how I feel about leaving one online 24/7 and electric bill yet.
I've had my desktop pc on 24/7 for years and already used to whatever that bill entails.
So any tips? Additionally some help with wiring. We have decommed r710's with perc i6's and perc h700's and I see a mix of wiring there as well but different from the pics I've seen of the LSI 92xx cards mentioned.
I've always liked to have a few hdd's in my machine and over the years I've hit the cap of the 8 sata ports on my motherboard and just dealt with it.
Fast forward to now and my job is decomming a site and we have a slew of 2TB SAS drives. There are a few 3.84TB SSD's they put to the side for a lab and I'd love to try and get my hands on 1 or 2 of those.
But regardless, I have several 256GB ssd's I've picked up over the years. 1 of my 2TB with plex media died and I've had enough and think its time to finally start making backups and mirroring stuff. I don't like the idea of RAID really since to my knowledge it was hardware controlled and a horror to move around. .
So I heard about an HBA card could give me SAS support in addition to just more available ports for whatever.
So where do I go from here? Its a standard desktop pc, asus z170 pro-gaming motherboard.
my dilemma is in trying to research this Im going in circles now. So many variations, some apparently are all just vendor differences in firmware, etc.
Pcie2.0 vs 3.0 which would be a factor if I do get some SAS SSDs.
Also I assume in this case windows or whatevers built in RAID1 would be sufficient?
I did also pick up an r720 server but I dont really know what Im doing but from what I can piece together it has a perc h710i which doesnt allow passthru/IT. Also not sure how I feel about leaving one online 24/7 and electric bill yet.
I've had my desktop pc on 24/7 for years and already used to whatever that bill entails.
So any tips? Additionally some help with wiring. We have decommed r710's with perc i6's and perc h700's and I see a mix of wiring there as well but different from the pics I've seen of the LSI 92xx cards mentioned.