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  • erm_what_@alien.topBtoData HoarderCustom DAS Help
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    1 year ago

    Watch out for voltage drop. If you have high current and long wires then your voltage will drop below the minimum the drives need and you’ll get random dropouts during heavy writes. Get around it by using short wires and not too many drives per wire. Or use server PSUs which are designed for longer runs.

    Having done this, its a lot simpler to buy a SAS DAS and swap the fans. The biggest noise tends to be the disks, which will be there anyway. Enterprise gear tends to weigh more and have good disk mounts which does a lot to deaden the sound the drives make, especially during seeks.