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Hello all I have done research and here I am...
I have ASRock D1541DU_2T8R, wish it was _208R but the board came with a bunch of free ram and shipping for a few bucks north of $200. It was a steal IMO.
I have an optiplex 7090 w/ 16GB RAM and i5-11500.
Unless I am mistaken I can use LSI HBA's to have storage drives show up on 2 systems simultaneously? Allowing it to be apart of both my Asrock's unraid pool and the i5-11500 plex transcoding pool?
Please let me know if I am mistaken....
but if not, how do I make use of the onboard LSI3008 ?
Do I simply plug 2 miniSAS into the HP 24 Port hba expander?
HP 468406-B21 HP 3GB 24BAY SAS EXPANDER CARD
Or will those 2 miniSAS from LSI3008 not give me the full bandwidth?
Would it be better to get a LSI9308-16I ? and have it connected to the HBA on the i5-11500?
Or will my LSI3008 suffice for up to 15 drives in a rosewill4500, but if I am going to have 2x Rosewill 4500, might as well use the LSI9308-16I to make full use of ports on the plex pool and then use the onboard LSI3008 with same case drives?
I am hoping I can use the PCIE4.0X16or 3.0x16 onboard the optiplex 7090 sff for the 24 port HBA for now, but eventually grab a better board for a workstation/server so I can add 10gb etc
Thanks for read and help!
Hello all I have done research and here I am...
I have ASRock D1541DU_2T8R, wish it was _208R but the board came with a bunch of free ram and shipping for a few bucks north of $200. It was a steal IMO.
I have an optiplex 7090 w/ 16GB RAM and i5-11500.
Unless I am mistaken I can use LSI HBA's to have storage drives show up on 2 systems simultaneously? Allowing it to be apart of both my Asrock's unraid pool and the i5-11500 plex transcoding pool?
Please let me know if I am mistaken....
but if not, how do I make use of the onboard LSI3008 ?
Do I simply plug 2 miniSAS into the HP 24 Port hba expander?
HP 468406-B21 HP 3GB 24BAY SAS EXPANDER CARD
Or will those 2 miniSAS from LSI3008 not give me the full bandwidth?
Would it be better to get a LSI9308-16I ? and have it connected to the HBA on the i5-11500?
Or will my LSI3008 suffice for up to 15 drives in a rosewill4500, but if I am going to have 2x Rosewill 4500, might as well use the LSI9308-16I to make full use of ports on the plex pool and then use the onboard LSI3008 with same case drives?
I am hoping I can use the PCIE4.0X16or 3.0x16 onboard the optiplex 7090 sff for the 24 port HBA for now, but eventually grab a better board for a workstation/server so I can add 10gb etc
Thanks for read and help!
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