I maxed out my motherboard on my recording / editing desktop with six SATA hard drives and was looking to expand. After checking out Synology NAS boxes which seemed way overpriced, I picked up a $50 LSI 9211-8i HBA card which hooks up via PCI-E and provides an additional 8 SATA drives. I flashed the LSI card to ver20 IT firmware and removed the BIOS, so it didn’t slow down boot times, and problem solved.
I can now expand to 14 hard drives for over 100 terabytes of storage. Now to find more deals on 10TB and 8TB Western Digital EasyStore external hard drives and shuck em. For those interested, here is my full build list.
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I can now expand to 14 hard drives for over 100 terabytes of storage. Now to find more deals on 10TB and 8TB Western Digital EasyStore external hard drives and shuck em. For those interested, here is my full build list.
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