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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Looking for advise on HBA card in limited PCIE slot (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys, is it ok if I use a LSI HBA card for Pcie 1x slot? My 16x slot is being used by my 8x NIC and my motherboard does not support difurcation. I planned to have two LSI HBA card on my two 1x PCIE slot, is it safe to have drives running on two LSI HBA card?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the advice! Sorry, forgot to give more information about my server I use a

Prime B550M A (wifi) motherboard - 2x PCIe 3.0 1x slots

Ryzen 5500

16 GB RAM

NIC card = Intel X540 t2 (recently purchased)

LSI HBA card I planned to purchase = LSI 9211-4i - PCI 2.0