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.
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.
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