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    PocketDemon got a reaction from gringott in How many hdds an evga 1600w t2 can support?   
    As noted before, I'm using a RAID controller, not a HBA, so you'd need to explore the f/w, drivers & s/w for your card.
    That said, a quick google search & there's this -
    - however, as far as I can see, 4&83E10FE&0&00E0 is not necessarily a fixed device ID - so you'd need to look in the registry for the equivalent.
     
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    PocketDemon got a reaction from gringott in How many hdds an evga 1600w t2 can support?   
    Now, the manual for the HBA you were talking about states "Minimum airflow: 200 linear feet per minute at 55 °C inlet temperature"... ...which is the same as my RAID card.
    Beyond that, all I can say is that, even with water cooling the CPU & GPU (& an external rad) so most of the heat's already taken out of the case/ the case fans are primarily cooling the mobo, memory, etc, then I've had issues without direct cooling with all of my previous LSI RAID cards - both in terms of drives dropping out & BSODs without there being an exceptional disk usage.
    (it's not that I'm running huge R50 arrays or something - primarily that I simply prefer using a RAID card, vs a HBA, in terms of the cache & BBU options)
    Similarly, the Chenbro expander I have - which, other than the fans, drives, cables, MOLEX-to-PCIE (to power the card) & PSU, is the only thing in the server case - came with a fan attached which failed; & again I had issues... ...so it's now got one of the Noctua fans on instead.
    So, whilst you 'could' try it without & see, personally I would always stick a fan on something like this.
     
    I couldn't advise you on monitoring for PWM as that's not how I do things - since I'd far rather have the system being stable irrespective of whether or not I was in a particular OS or not.
    Well, not that dissimilarly, whilst the rad fans are PWM, for me it's about creating a temp curve within the bios for the CPU (& hence, by default, the GPU), & so is entirely OS independent.
    So, whilst I couldn't recommend anything specific, 'if' I were looking for a fan controller then I'd want something which I could connect a thermal sensor to (& attach that to the h/s above the IOC) AND I could set the temp limit solely with the controller.
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    PocketDemon got a reaction from Christopher (Drashna) in Different size hdd's   
    Oh, certainly... Which is why I'd written on the 22nd of March in the thread that -
    "Obviously the downside to what we're suggesting though is voiding the warranty by shucking them..."
    So, it was about agreeing with you that going for NAS/Enterprise drives is a good thing; esp as you start to increase the drive count - BUT that this didn't contradict what had been suggested earlier about shucking the WD externals IF purchase price trumped warranty.
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    PocketDemon got a reaction from Christopher (Drashna) in Different size hdd's   
    Along with balancing personal budget, price/TB & warranty (if that matters to you) & whatnot...
    ...it's also about how many HDDs you can physically connect up vs how your data's growing - since many people get by with just a small SSD in a laptop - whilst others (like myself) are 'data-whores' have many 10s or 100s of TBs of random stuff.
     
    As to looking at NAS storage, part of the reason why people look at shucking the higher capacity WD external drives is that they all use WD/HGSC helium 5400rpm filled drives - which are effectively equivalent to the WD Reds...
    (some of the smaller capacity ones switched to using WD Greens/Blues - I believe only <=4TB but I don't know that for certain)
    ...though they 'may' alternatively be some version of a WD Gold or HTSC HC500 or...???
    ...all of which are designed for NAS - but buying the external drives is cheaper.
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    PocketDemon got a reaction from CpN in Different size hdd's   
    There's no issue with different sizes - &, within the context of your drives & what you're likely to be doing, there's no issue with sizes & using the capacity.
    Yeah, the only time that there would be an issue is if the number of times you're duplicating wouldn't work... ...so, imagining someone were looking at duplicating the entire pool, for example -
    - with 2x duplication &, say a 1TB & 8TB drive, they could only actually duplicate 1TB
    - & with 3x duplication &, say a 1TB, 4TB & 8TB drive, they could still only actually duplicate 1TB
    ...however, unless you're after >=6x duplication (which is highly unlikely), there's no problem whatsoever.
     
    If you are using duplication & your current drives are pretty full already, after adding the new drive then I would suggest pushing the "Duplication Space Optimiser" to the top & forcing a rebalance run just before going to bed... As this then should prevent there being any issues moving forward.
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    PocketDemon got a reaction from postcd in Folder/File balancing, where destination is drive not part of the pool?   
    I'm truly sorry, as it clearly can be done.
    I won't delete the previous posts, but I will strike through everything that's incorrect so as to not to confuse anyone.
     
     
     
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