Grinas
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Hey,
A dell t20 or a Lenovo ts140 were recommended to me here on the forum. So i went out an purchased a Lenovo TS140. After nearly a month of waiting for it. I decided to open a claim to get my money back. I seen a cheap Dell t20 in the meantime and purchased this. To my surprise the 2 of them arrived on the same day. The seller of the Lenovo miswrote my address.
All in all I cant complain. I decided to use the Dell for the FreeNas build as it had 4 build in 3'5 HDD trays and 2 build in 2'5" HDD trays. When the Lenovo had only 2 3'5 HDD trays. I decided to turn the Lenovo into a hackintosh and it was a pretty easy process.
Anyways I will be writing up a guide in the next few days about the pros and cons of each.
My question is. How many Drives can the Dell T20 PSU take? As far as I know it is a 290 watt PSU.
I have a SAS card in the machine that allows me to have an additional 4 drives and there was a Sata power splitter in the machine that adds an additional 2/3 Sata power connections. I cant remember exactly the number of extra connections it adds. I will check later and add. With the SAS card every 2 drives need 1 Sata power connection
If i was to buy another SAS card and another Sata power splitter would the PSU be able to take it.
My current setup is
Boot Drive = 2 * 32GB sandisk cuzer USB 3.0 (nice and small so don’t have to worry about them getting knocked out or damaged)
Pools:
main Pool = VDev with 3 * 2TB drives
secondary Pool = VDev with 2 * 1TB drives
And an 120GB SSD for VM's and jails etc.
A dell t20 or a Lenovo ts140 were recommended to me here on the forum. So i went out an purchased a Lenovo TS140. After nearly a month of waiting for it. I decided to open a claim to get my money back. I seen a cheap Dell t20 in the meantime and purchased this. To my surprise the 2 of them arrived on the same day. The seller of the Lenovo miswrote my address.
All in all I cant complain. I decided to use the Dell for the FreeNas build as it had 4 build in 3'5 HDD trays and 2 build in 2'5" HDD trays. When the Lenovo had only 2 3'5 HDD trays. I decided to turn the Lenovo into a hackintosh and it was a pretty easy process.
Anyways I will be writing up a guide in the next few days about the pros and cons of each.
My question is. How many Drives can the Dell T20 PSU take? As far as I know it is a 290 watt PSU.
I have a SAS card in the machine that allows me to have an additional 4 drives and there was a Sata power splitter in the machine that adds an additional 2/3 Sata power connections. I cant remember exactly the number of extra connections it adds. I will check later and add. With the SAS card every 2 drives need 1 Sata power connection
If i was to buy another SAS card and another Sata power splitter would the PSU be able to take it.
My current setup is
Boot Drive = 2 * 32GB sandisk cuzer USB 3.0 (nice and small so don’t have to worry about them getting knocked out or damaged)
Pools:
main Pool = VDev with 3 * 2TB drives
secondary Pool = VDev with 2 * 1TB drives
And an 120GB SSD for VM's and jails etc.