Hi, all. First timer, please be gentle... d8^) Thanks!
I firstly search the forum for something related to the question below, but this forum has a huge amount o'data, did not find any at a first, surface search; if there is any other thread about this, please point me to it, OK? Thanks again!
I have a Gigabyte 78LMT-S2 Mboard - 8GB RAM, AMD Semprom 145 - running FreeNAS 9.2.1.3 (will upgrade it soon) with 6 X 3TB Seagate HD - 4 are ZFS arranged, 2 are striped - working smoothly & fine, powered by a Dr. Hank PH-850B PS. I also have 4 X 2TB HD - Seagate as well, will stripe them, too - and I would like to connect these too to the existing rig (my own cloud storage system). I have already bought a 4 X RAID/SATA PCI controller for connecting them to the 78LMT-S2, but I am not comfortable keeping the single PH-850B to handle the task of power requirements alone. So, my questions are:
1 – any single PS replacement that would do the job? OR
2 – any safe way to connect another PS in parallel with the existing one, just for powering the extra 4 HD's (or, if applicable, re-manage the HD's amongst the PS pair)? OR MAYBE
3 – I should simply build a second, complete DIY NAS and forget about the 2 upper options?
Yep, I know... there are better solutions, but hey! It is a DIY cloud with a/some DIY NAS, I should be proud of building it, right? So it must work without fuming itself... There are some 18 TB data spread amongst 10 hard disks, cannot afford loosing it! Thanks for any help!
(In time: forgive me for any misspelled word or any worse crime against the language... I'm a native Portuguese speaker, English is my second language along with Fortran, C++, TCL/TK, Focal...)
I firstly search the forum for something related to the question below, but this forum has a huge amount o'data, did not find any at a first, surface search; if there is any other thread about this, please point me to it, OK? Thanks again!
I have a Gigabyte 78LMT-S2 Mboard - 8GB RAM, AMD Semprom 145 - running FreeNAS 9.2.1.3 (will upgrade it soon) with 6 X 3TB Seagate HD - 4 are ZFS arranged, 2 are striped - working smoothly & fine, powered by a Dr. Hank PH-850B PS. I also have 4 X 2TB HD - Seagate as well, will stripe them, too - and I would like to connect these too to the existing rig (my own cloud storage system). I have already bought a 4 X RAID/SATA PCI controller for connecting them to the 78LMT-S2, but I am not comfortable keeping the single PH-850B to handle the task of power requirements alone. So, my questions are:
1 – any single PS replacement that would do the job? OR
2 – any safe way to connect another PS in parallel with the existing one, just for powering the extra 4 HD's (or, if applicable, re-manage the HD's amongst the PS pair)? OR MAYBE
3 – I should simply build a second, complete DIY NAS and forget about the 2 upper options?
Yep, I know... there are better solutions, but hey! It is a DIY cloud with a/some DIY NAS, I should be proud of building it, right? So it must work without fuming itself... There are some 18 TB data spread amongst 10 hard disks, cannot afford loosing it! Thanks for any help!
(In time: forgive me for any misspelled word or any worse crime against the language... I'm a native Portuguese speaker, English is my second language along with Fortran, C++, TCL/TK, Focal...)