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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Need some advice with HBA card and cables. (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Spaztic_monkey@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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So I am switching from a Synology with 8 drive bays to a server with 24 drive bays to up my data hoarding game. This is the chassis I will be using. There appear to be 6 backplanes, each of which drive 4 drives. What I am unsure of is how to connect that to my system. I understand I should probably be using an HBA card, I see a lot of recommendations for the LSI 9211-8i, but I only see 2 ports on that, is that sufficient? If not which hba card should I be going for? Also which cables will I need to connect it to the backplanes? Oh also I am using the Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX, Intel Z790 Motherboard if that matters for this question. Thanks in advance!

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[–] Spaztic_monkey@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Amazing, thank you so much for such a detailed answer, that really clears things up. I've ordered myself and sas expander card to go with the LSI 9211-8i along with the cables.