Before I begin I currently have all my hard drives connected to SATA ports on my motherboard right now. This whole world of server racks is new to me, so please forgive me if I ask some really simple questions :/
So I recently got a used server rack and I'm not sure where to go from here:
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Now I want to move my SATA HDDs(which I have in a server running Windows 10 right now) to this rack. From my understanding, these connectors on the backplane are Mini-SAS:
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So what kind of controller card would you guys recommend to get to get these drives working? Right now I have 8 hard drives, but I'm looking to add more to this rack down the road. Not looking, to spend to much on these card(I don't need anything fancy, since I use software RAID in Windows rather than hardware). I'm still looking to run Windows 10, so it has to be compatible with Windows 10.
I was looking at getting two of these:
Fast-Boot No-MPT-BIOS 9207-8i PCI-E 3.0 LSI00301 IT Mode Card US-SameDayShip | eBay
Not sure if that's the best route for a beginner, so open to any suggestions...
Thanks!
So I recently got a used server rack and I'm not sure where to go from here:
Chenbro - Products
Now I want to move my SATA HDDs(which I have in a server running Windows 10 right now) to this rack. From my understanding, these connectors on the backplane are Mini-SAS:
Imgur
So what kind of controller card would you guys recommend to get to get these drives working? Right now I have 8 hard drives, but I'm looking to add more to this rack down the road. Not looking, to spend to much on these card(I don't need anything fancy, since I use software RAID in Windows rather than hardware). I'm still looking to run Windows 10, so it has to be compatible with Windows 10.
I was looking at getting two of these:
Fast-Boot No-MPT-BIOS 9207-8i PCI-E 3.0 LSI00301 IT Mode Card US-SameDayShip | eBay
Not sure if that's the best route for a beginner, so open to any suggestions...
Thanks!