How to handle 13 case fans!

Soldato
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Just bought a new case for my home server (Lian Li D8000). I bought it second hand and it has come preloaded with 13 fans!

6 over the hard drives
4 at the back of the case
2 at the top of the case
1 facing the motherboard

It's probably hugely overkill but I'd like to know the best way to control them.

I had a three fan controller in my last case. Do I just need to get a controller which can handle more? Ideally I'd like to be able to control the 6 fans that run over the hard drives seperately from everything else.
 
I've not actually turned it on yet so not sure how much noise it will produce. The server lives in the cupboard under the stairs though so noise isn't a problem.

I can't replace the HDDs with SSD as that would cost me a fortune! I have 30tb of storage in there at the moment. I'd like to keep the drives as cool as possible - I run UnRaid which does a monthly parity check at which point all the drives are up and running at the same time, so can get quite warm.

Will look in to Splitty9s.
 
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