Extra storage

Greg0986 · 7 Jan 2018 at 00:37

I'm looking to play around with adding more storage to my home 'server' (or at least the ability to add more storage at a later date). I don't have masses of experience in this but I am keep to learn.

I've been reading up on Backblaze and 45Drives guides for create a storage server and most of it makes sense to me. One thing that stands out is how easy (probably not the right term to use..) it is to add more drives.

Is it as easy as just getting an LSI-9201 PCIe card and two SFF-8087 cable to effectively add 8 storage drives to my server? I know RAID etc comes into play, but that can be worked on after I have the ability to add more drives.

Methos · 7 Jan 2018 at 01:00

if you've got the space in your case, and the PCI lanes free on your motherboard to allow you decent access to more hard drives, then yes, you can do it that way

are you basically building a NAS or using it as a PC as well as storage?

Greg0986 · 7 Jan 2018 at 01:21

As a NAS, but to learn also. I have a case that can support 12 drives and a decent motherboard, CPU, RAM and power supply, just not enough sata ports. Nothing of value will be stored on the drives, I just want to experiment and learn

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Methos · 7 Jan 2018 at 01:25

might be worth looking at the Tek Syndicate FreeNAS youtube tutorial

he also did a build with "pauls hardware" on youtube as well, showing everything about how to build a NAS from scratch, hard drives and everything... and then how to install the software to run it on a network

pretty good video set, well worth hunting down if you need the software information as well as hardware tips

Greg0986 · 7 Jan 2018 at 01:30

Great, I'll definitely have a look at those, thanks for your help

Methos · 7 Jan 2018 at 01:33

anytime... building a separate NAS is definitely a really rewarding project

the 'pauls hardware' video is actually a pretty good laugh to watch as well as it gives a few pointers at mistakes that people make when first building one up