Fizzle
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- Apr 20, 2023
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- 7
Howdy there,
My little NAS/Media Server has only 4 measly SATA ports on the motherboard, and I can hold up to 6 drives in the case. It's made from old parts to keep costs down, but I definitely want to take advantage of all 6 bays. After doing some research I've decided on adding an LSI Logic 9211-8i to give me the ability to use those extra drives. Given my case, a Fractal Node 304, I am a little worried about cooking the poor card. Should I be? And if I do zip tie a fan to the heatsink for the cooling, would I be able to simply flash the card into IT mode and plug my drives in and it would just... work? I'm assuming I might need to rebuild my RAID array and would thus lose everything on the drives without a backup.
Thanks for your time!
My little NAS/Media Server has only 4 measly SATA ports on the motherboard, and I can hold up to 6 drives in the case. It's made from old parts to keep costs down, but I definitely want to take advantage of all 6 bays. After doing some research I've decided on adding an LSI Logic 9211-8i to give me the ability to use those extra drives. Given my case, a Fractal Node 304, I am a little worried about cooking the poor card. Should I be? And if I do zip tie a fan to the heatsink for the cooling, would I be able to simply flash the card into IT mode and plug my drives in and it would just... work? I'm assuming I might need to rebuild my RAID array and would thus lose everything on the drives without a backup.
Thanks for your time!