I recently purchased a SAS HBA (over here in great deals) LSI Sas 9201-16e
And I'm loving it so far it's quick and flexible and I have a few external ports left after looping it back into my tower for the ones I need. I've been toying with using some of the old cases I have to build an external chassis for some extra storage and have found a few different options.
HP SAS expanders are cheap on amazon
Highpoint expanders cost more but have better options power wise
I've looked at different options for powering the HP expander including small motherboard or just trying to power it off a PCIe riser like this and a manual switch for the PSU.
Has anyone tried anything like this before? Should this be in the workstation forum instead?
And I'm loving it so far it's quick and flexible and I have a few external ports left after looping it back into my tower for the ones I need. I've been toying with using some of the old cases I have to build an external chassis for some extra storage and have found a few different options.
HP SAS expanders are cheap on amazon
Highpoint expanders cost more but have better options power wise
I've looked at different options for powering the HP expander including small motherboard or just trying to power it off a PCIe riser like this and a manual switch for the PSU.
Has anyone tried anything like this before? Should this be in the workstation forum instead?