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If you can find a second hand PC with a Celeron, they’re pretty low draw, and it will mean you can open it up and add as many drives as it has SATA ports. We did the same, got an old PC for £30 and added drives and more RAM.

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rentar42@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

as it has SATA ports
More. PCIe SATA controllers are cheap (even though you'll often hear "get a HBA and flash it", it's not absolutely necessary).

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- CazRaX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I currently have an HBA that breaks it into 8 DATA connections and was wondering if an 8 port SATA controller would be lower power usage and work as well. My HBA is a server one and rather old, it’s a Dell H310 flashed. Then again I am thinking of replacing the MB and upgrade to a newer CPU that is more energy efficient than my current Xeon E3-1270 just can’t seem to find the right one.
  
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  - rentar42@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I'm far from an expert in HBAs and never used one myself. but it is my understanding that the major advantage is that you're extremely unlikely to get a janky one whereas Sata controllers could be bad (they are often cheaply made non brand products). if they work either one is fine in a hone lab setting.
    
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- appel@whiskers.bim.boats ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ah good point. Even more then :)
  
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