Upgrading to a Broadcom 9600-24i on TrueNAS Dragonfish

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 12:15:00 +0000

Earlier this year, PG&E hiked up our electricity rates significantly in California. What last year was painful but acceptable electric bill each month rapidly became unacceptable, and so we started looking for opportunities to lower our consumption. One of the first things to come to mind here is the NAS we use for media storage/backups/etc. This NAS is slightly overbuilt for home user needs – it is a SuperMicro 2U 6028U-TR4T+ server with 2 Xeon CPUs, 128GB of RAM, 5 SSDs (3 PCI SSDs, 2 SATA SSDs), and 12 spinning disks connected to a BPN-SAS-826A backplane.

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Upgrading to a Broadcom 9600-24i on TrueNAS Dragonfish