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  1. In order to do this, you would need to use a port on your motherboard dedicated to a fan correct? It will not work on the fans with the older molex power connection right?
  2. How do you make your hard drive fans spin faster when your hard drives get hotter? Basically a way to have them spin slowly and quiet when hard drives are not working but then if they are working a lot and generating a lot of heat, spinning much faster. Is there some kind of controller unit that you need to buy or does the motherboard bios usually have settings for this? Basically monitoring the hard drive temp and if it exceeds a certain temp, make fan spin faster and if temp drops below a certain point make fans spin slower. Also, I assume you also need some kind of power splitter to support so many fans as well right? Thanks.
  3. Thank you. This is extremely useful information. So a single rail means there is like 1 output dividend into all the various power wires coming out of a power supply? How much power do you factor in for each hard drive? Somewhere between 5-10 Watts? Thanks.
  4. How many SATA power splitters can you use on a single SATA Cable? I found some that are like 1 to 5 and the SATA in my case has like 2 connection. So can 1 cable do 10 power cables for 10 hard drives? Thanks.
  5. I found a crypto bitcoin miner's motherboard with 12 individual USB ports. Could this be used to bring in external USB hard drives into the array? Are USB hard drives supported or just the normal SATA ones? Thanks.
  6. Are power CPU wasted on UNraid server or can it use it for faster performance? Does AMD or Intel make a difference? What is the limiting factor? Thanks.
  7. Can UNRAID can recover data in a failed array as long as the Individual hard drives are not damaged or data corrupted ? Unlike losing 2 drives in a RAID5 array. Please let me know if this is the case. Also, Does it treat all the drives as if they all the smallest drive? So if you combined 8TB, 10TB, 12TB, 16TB, 20TB, etc.... Would all those drives be treated like 8TB drives or can it make use of the space in all those drives somehow? I think with RAID5, all the drives are all treated as 8TB drives since its the smallest. Thanks.
  8. Are you using SAS cards or SATA expansion cards? What case are you using that can fit 20-30 Hard drives? Do you have like some external hard drive cage connected to the Unraid server? Thanks.
  9. What case do you use now? I looked for server cases that could hold like 30 hard drive but they were in the thousands of US dollars. Your old setup as the fractal Design define S with some kind of custom acrylic hard drive cage like shown in the picture I posted? If so, did you have any issues with heat from the hard drives being so close together? Thanks.
  10. Ok, so this gives you 6 extra SATA connection plus the 4 SATA or so the motherboard has built-in. It will also take up your only PCI-E slot so you can't have a graphics card along with this. So this setup would only provide 10 drives. What if you want the full capacity of 30 drives? How can that be achieved? Thanks.
  11. How do you add lots of hard drive sata ports to your setup? Is there like a special motherboard that you use that comes with 30 SATA slots or is there some kind of device that adds a ton of SATA connectors? Thanks.
  12. What type of case are you using now? Most computer cases can't hold very many hard drives unless you get one of these crazy ones that cost hundreds in shipping alone right? So if there is not enough gap for air flow, maybe I could make my own with a piece of acrylic or steel and space them out more with a fan for every 3 hard drives ?
  13. This setup is being sold as a acrylic hard drive bracket/cage. It appears to be holding 12 drives. My concern is heat and vibration. Are hard drives design to be run this close to each other? Is there enough of a gap to allow for air flow to transfer heat ? What do you think for some kind of DIY case setup?