It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Korgeman on 2024-10-03 09:52:42.

Hi,

Super new to the data hoarder thing. I have under a dozen WD/Seagate drives and I want to give RAID a try. Don't really need a NAS as I don't want to make all my files accessible online.

I've read that LSI 9300 seems to be the best card to do this but after some searching, I find there are different models. For an example, I see LSI SAS 9300 16I, LSI Broadcom SAS 9300-8i and LSI 9300 8e listed on Amazon. What's the different between these cards and which one best suits my needs. Also, is there is a huge difference between 6GB and 12GB speeds in terms of performance?