Comment on Options to Expand Sata HDD Drives on a Lenovo Computer
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I loaded True Nas onto the internal SSD and swapped out the HDD drive that came with it for a 10tb drive.
Do I understand that you currently have a SATA SSD and a 10TB SATA HDD plugged into this machine?
If so, it seems like a SATA power splitter that divides the power to the SSD would suffice, in spite of the computer store’s admonition. The reason for splitting power from the SSD is because an SSD draws much less power than spinning rust.
Can it still go wrong? Yes, but that’s the inherent risk when pushing beyond the design criteria of what this machine was originally built for. That said, “going wrong” typically means “won’t turn on”, not “halt and catch fire”.
qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I was thinking of something similar. Especially since the SSD is not doing much beyond running the True Nas OS. So splitting that between a HDD does not feel like it would push things that much more
Witziger_Waschbaer@feddit.org 2 days ago
forums.lenovo.com/t5/…/4377028
Seems to be the way, this thread on the Lenovo forum supports your idea.
There is also a guy on the german mydealz forum, who is running 2 HDDs on one power connector and it seems to work for him (account required to read): mydealz.de/…/lenovo-thinkcentre-m720s-sff-office-…
Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Also, TrueNAS loads entirely into RAM upon boot, meaning the SSD will only be used once when the computer is powered on. So apart from that few seconds, there won’t be any additional power draw from the SSD.