Beck (an olde timey musician) wrote a song about me. He may be the Kwisatz Haderach.
Last week, after soaking up y’alls’ wisdom, I ordered an HP Elitedesk 800 Mini G5-9500T figuring that device would manage Plex, possibly Blue Iris and HomeKit. The plan was to shoehorn a compatible PCIe riser if necessary to attach a sas controller with my 6 14TB HDD’s hanging off of it in a 2U rack drawer. Nothing fancy, nothing noisy, high WAF /twitch.
I’m trying to eat the elephant here. I think that I’ve just ordered a huge mouthful of parts reserved for savory foam connoisseurs and people who like to play with their food: the old EMC KTN-STL3. Admiral Ackbar has entered the chat…
EMC KTN-STL3: 15 Bays total (shipped with 13x 100GB Flash SSDs and 1x 300GB Drive). Shipping more expensive than the DAE.
So much for a low energy NAS. As the man said, soy un pendego.
Forging ahead.
It seems to me that I should now select the LSI 9206-16e to connect the Elitedesk 800 to the KTN-STL3. One PCIe slot to rule them all or something. Is that viable? The verbiage on the art of server chap’s description for this HBA describes Eye of Mordor heat being generated. I need an adult! Is the super high temps to be expected with casual NAS access or will He be summoned only when I back up my special cats folders?
Neither of these devices has been delivered so I can’t provide specific details yet. Reading all of the other KTN-STL3 posts here and elsewhere it sounds like this is a breech baby.
Thoughts? Feelings?