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Thanks for the response, going off your external storage rack idea, could something like this work well? ICY DOCK MB998SP-B (8 bay drive cage) https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994178&cm_re=icy_dock-_-17-994-178-_-Product StarTech Model SAS8087S450 (like I mentioned in the first comment) https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=StarTech+Model+SAS8087S450&N=-1&isNodeId=1 The only thing from there would be a power issue. EDIT: sorry should've added links

Hello everyone, new to the forum a bit, was hoping to see if I could an answer to my questions here. I work in a DC, just the hardware guy, replacing stuff and installing new hardware/cables no software or expansion on existing servers though. I was fortunate enough to take home an HP DL380p Gen 8 server recently and set up with FreeNAS since that's the only thing I really know was easy. I have 8x 300GB SAS drives installed in FreeNAS raids but was hoping to add some more but unfortunately, I only have one drive cage and they're filled, and the other drive cage has the optical drive cage. I am completely ok with a full 3TB of storage with this server that I have now through the zfs raid. But today I am taking home some more hard drives. 2x 200GB SSD SATA, 1x 400GB SSD SATA, 2x 900GB SAS drives and 2x 300GB drives which I don't have any drive cages for, so they're backups (Ill make sure on the drives SAS/SATA interface but I think I am correct on those). I have 2 more open SAS ports on the motherboard open, the current drives are connected to the RAID controller SAS ports which I don't even use. I also have a 140GB SSD I bought on my own to try to use for the cache but I got stuck on this issue. I was hoping to see if anyone knew how to add these drives to this server, I know I can buy another backplane (and wires, but I can't find those) but the ones I found were really expensive. I found a cheap way to do it but then my issue is power, getting something like StarTech Model SAS8087S450 which has 4 SATA connectors to a SAS port but like I said power is then the issue. Are there any other suggestions or ideas to make this happen? Currently, I only set it up as my plex media server, since my current one can't stream 4K movies and this can with the overkill 2x 6 core CPU's and 64GB of RAM. But I will be adding at least one windows VM for some proof of stake mining and I plan on using this as a file server too for my college work and personal stuff, as well as family members, work files back up so more storage the better. Thanks in advance to anyone can help.

Thanks Kirashi, I have the RT-AC88U which has some monitoring tools but nothing like that. And I know theres definitely some type of security on the nodes but was hoping there was a way to see where the loss or slow down starts. Ill give the WRT software a look and see if I want to install it on my router, I have so much on it from VPN to DHCP for all my devices so I dont know if I want to start over with that.

Hi everyone, I was curious to see if there are any free home networking monitoring tools to monitor bandwidth of my neighborhood nodes or just my incoming bandwidth in charts. I have been having issues with my internet lately and was hoping to get some type of charting tool to show my ISP since they don't see any issues. Thanks!

Hi everyone, new here to the forum, just wanted to see what possible ideas I could do with a server I was able to take home from work. Currently I have it set up with Ubuntu with a GUI because I wanted to use android studio on it with a friend. I don't know anything about software, just a hardware guy at my company for the data center. Currently I have a Synology NAS handling my plex and personal files but with the power I have on my PowerEdge R610, 2x 6 core processors and 64gb of memory I was hoping to do something with this server. Could anyone suggest any ideas that I could easily learn for and accomplish? I would like to use it as another NAS but I don't have big enough hard drives for it right now, only 4 146GB drives, for plex and files, but besides that, like I said above I have it set up for Ubuntu and Android Studio to learn some coding but my issue with that is when using RealVNC the resolution is stuck and 640x480. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated, I am up for learning whatever I need to in order to get it up and running as well. Thank you!