NKkrisz

I can't really put it elsewhere and it does get loud when it's turned on so I will try sound proofing it somehow in the future (already swapped the Ubiquiti Switch's fans to Noctua ones).

The main noise source are the HDDs so it would be nice to get SSDs instead but I don't have the budget for that sadly.

The HBA is in PCI-e slot (with an adapter) in a Lenovo MiniPC, more details here: https://github.com/NKkrisz/HomeLab/blob/main/markdown/Lenovo...

The HBA is connected to the HDDs with SFF-8088 to SATA cables. They are in a 3D printed rack powered by an ATX PSU and some adapters.

After this I installed Proxmox to the internal SSD and then made a VM for TrueNAS which has the HBA connected to it with PCI-e passthrough after finding a tutorial for it on Youtube.

You can see how this whole thing looks here: https://github.com/NKkrisz/HomeLab/blob/main/markdown/ThinkR...

Oh I see, sorry I'm new to this :)