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Considerations when buying an LSI HBA? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago

If you're installing an HBA at home, it's better to immediately install something like a Noctua NF-A4x10 on it. You should also immediately check the type of hardware initialization. If the system boots into EFI and the HBA is old and only supports BIOS, there may be problems. Otherwise, everything works perfectly with almost every device.

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