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    Question What's a proper SAS controller for ordinary desktop PCs?

    I've got a spare SAS drive I want to use on my desktop PC. I don't need to run it in RAID or anything, it's just going to be a single storage drive. I've looked for SAS controllers on ebay but they vary wildly in price and specs. Some even require DRAM and a battery which sounds like a hybrid...
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    [SOLVED] Supporting many disks on one motherboard?

    I'm going to RAID 0 a bunch of nvme drives. I'm just trying to figure out the max amount of drives I could install in RAID 0 on the system. I had heard the Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI can only support 10 disks in RAID 0. Is that per RAID 0 array, or for the entire system? In other words could I...
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    [SOLVED] Choosing cheap 2nd hand server for office with lots of SAS storage

    Hi all. Bit of a newbie. I'm looking to buy an oldish server on ebay to make a file server for my office. It will store a huge number of image files and a mysql database. It will need redundancy so was thinking raid1. Excluding drives budget is only about $400. My research suggests that the sas...
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    Question Problem Connecting two LSI 16i SAS Cards

    Hello, I have a problem with trying to run two LSI 9201-16i cards. The second PCI-E x16 slot detects the second card but the LSI Bios says that it's inserted into PCI-E slot "ff" (According to the bios this means invalid slot). Is there any way to get it to run the card? It's already detected...