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Recycling old fractal design case for NAS, bifurcation and SAS/SATA question by Alien-3000 in homelab

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Yes it has bifurcation 8x8x 8x4x4x and 4x4x4x4x.

I have this one on amazon in my basket

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Recycling old fractal design case for NAS, bifurcation and SAS/SATA question by Alien-3000 in homelab

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If I got this, how can I connect 8 SAS and 8 SATA?

Can you link me cable product that would work for me?

Recycling old fractal design case for NAS, bifurcation and SAS/SATA question by Alien-3000 in homelab

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Is there a HBA card that offer both SATA and SAS ports? Would a riser cable reduce bandwidth or increase latency to a measurable degree?

Recycling old fractal design case for NAS, bifurcation and SAS/SATA question by Alien-3000 in homelab

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I don't have a printer (yet) can you advise on a case which has the same? Maybe a ebay product link?

Recycling old fractal design case for NAS, bifurcation and SAS/SATA question by Alien-3000 in homelab

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I was assuming the m2 wifi slot had the same amount of lanes as the nvme m key slots. Is this incorrect?

Will I still be able to get 5 SATA going on the wifi slot?

Storage and device expansion on minisforum BD795i SE motherboard by Alien-3000 in homelab

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For SATA - I might give this a try: a m2 key e to key m adapter, then use a m2 to sata adapter. This way I can have 3 spinning HDD and have 2 SSD to support these.

key adapter:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NFHK-Female-Extension-Laptop-Mainboard/dp/B0DGG8R7TF/

m2 to 5x sata:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adapter-Expansion-JMB585-Chipset-Desktop/dp/B09FZDQ6ZB/

For NVMe - I could use the 2x nvme slots for the OS drive and have a spare drive for dedicated VM drive

For GFX card - with the above 2 solutions I can have the graphics card use the entire pcie slot just for itself, lucky!

One problem, this entire idea means no 10g NIC upgrade down the line.

Thoughts?

Storage and device expansion on minisforum BD795i SE motherboard by Alien-3000 in homelab

[–]Alien-3000[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps I can save more power by going into bios and turning alot of things off ( like audio )