June 17, 20224 yr Hello, Please be gentle with me on this, i'm not as experienced as a lot of you are. I've been testing unraid for about two years now on an old Dell R710. It's been a great experience so i've now taken the plunge to move all my real life data to unraid and use my synology for backups. So what did i buy? Well i have a FD Define 7XL, ASRock x570 Taichi, AMD 5950X, Kingston 2x32GB ECC RAM, H100X AiO, HX1000, GTX1080Ti (Plex transcoding). I have plans to buy two 9201-8i HBA's, but for now i'm planning on connecting 4x8tb hdd and 2x1tb ssd via the mobo sata ports. Ok, now the problem, the mobo has 5 or 6 headers for fans but my setup has 4x120 NF-F12 (120mm @ 3000rpm max) at the front, three NF-F12 at the top (two if which are for the H100X and a single NF-A14 (140mm @ 3000rpm max) at the back. As you can appreciate thats more fans than headers. I have the AIO connected to CPU_fan1 (fan splitter) and CPU_fan2 (pump). That leaves me six fans and four headers. So the question is what would be the best way to connect the remaining fans? Should i buy a fan controller? If so which controller would be best for unraid compatibility? Could i use y fan splitters to connect multiple fans to the mobo? What are the ramifications\risks of such a move and how many can you have on a single port? Appreciating any help i receive. Thanks Also as an afterthought, does anyone have any advice on the best pci configuration for the 1080ti and two 9201-8i cards? I suspect the gpu should go in pcie slot 1 and the remaining cards in the remaining slots? Would just like someone to confirm i'm doing the right thing there. Edited June 17, 20224 yr by ONI Assassin
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.