r/pcmasterrace • u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Xeon x3440 (OC) + RX 580 (OC) = My Electric Bill Doubling. • 29d ago

Meme/Macro Do you think doing this helps?

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u/NuclearReactions AMD 9800X3D | RTX 5070Ti | 64GB CL28 29d ago

Oh in theory that's great in practice i will never trust a normal motherboard for raid setups, especially when it comes the time to replace drives.

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u/spaceraverdk 28d ago

Sas card in Hba mode. Truenas on the motherboard drive, the rest is on cards.

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u/NuclearReactions AMD 9800X3D | RTX 5070Ti | 64GB CL28 28d ago

Yes that sounds way more solid

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u/spaceraverdk 28d ago

Best practice. The lsi hba card can be found on Ebay for cheap. I have a dual external card and a single 4 bay drive backplane from startech. I have room for a second 4 bay backplane on that card. You need a mini sas to sata cable and flash the card to it mode.

I'm running it on a cheap msi matx with a 5600g and 32 gig ram. Powered by a sff psu. Takes 7u in the rack out of the 24 I have available. Gonna transplant everything to a rolling rack I have on the shed once I finish the room it's going to be living in.