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Looking for compatible SAS expander

Ramaddil
By Ramaddil
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So I have two computers both have LSI 8708 EM2 raid Cards (Full Specs: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118117)

 

I currently on one raid card have 8 x 2TB Red drives and I am not quite out of space yet, but i know it will need to be expanded.  I have thought about replacing each drive with 3 or 4TB drives but that is a very expensive route, and would prefer just to buy a SAS expander so I can add more drives to the array.  My Array is a Raid 6, and i am looking for any suggestions regarding this or perhaps if there are no compatible expanders for this card, a new combo of Raid Card and expander which i think would still be much cheaper than replacing all the drives.  

 

 

My PC that i am looking for it to go in has the following componets:

 

PSU: Corsair TX850
MB: Gigabyte GA-MA790GPT

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 @3.2Ghz
HS: Noctua NH-D14
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600 GSkill Ram
RAID CARD 1: LSI Megaraid 8708EM2

 

 

Thanks for any help.

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