Hi all,
I think my current HBA (Dell H310) might be broken, as my ZFS pool is constantly getting corrupted data. Although it is actively cooled (by a 1000rpm 120mm fan at 7 cm distance), I can't think of any other reason than that heat has caused it to die in less than a year. As these HBAs are meant for servers with overkill airflow (explaining the tiny heatsinks), I wanted to use "overkill-heatsinks" on my replacement HBA
I already found an old CPU heatsink that should fit (after sawing the bottom off) on the HBA chip itself. But I was wondering if there are perhaps other components on the HBA that could use a little additional cooling?
If so, then I can attach some more memory heatsinks to those components as well...
My electronic component knowledge isn't enough I'm afraid to know which of these tiny components generate a lot of heat. Hopefully someone can help.
Below some pictures where I tried to number the likely candidates...
The front:
The back:
The CPU cooler I'm planning to use for the main chip
Thanks!
I think my current HBA (Dell H310) might be broken, as my ZFS pool is constantly getting corrupted data. Although it is actively cooled (by a 1000rpm 120mm fan at 7 cm distance), I can't think of any other reason than that heat has caused it to die in less than a year. As these HBAs are meant for servers with overkill airflow (explaining the tiny heatsinks), I wanted to use "overkill-heatsinks" on my replacement HBA
I already found an old CPU heatsink that should fit (after sawing the bottom off) on the HBA chip itself. But I was wondering if there are perhaps other components on the HBA that could use a little additional cooling?
If so, then I can attach some more memory heatsinks to those components as well...
My electronic component knowledge isn't enough I'm afraid to know which of these tiny components generate a lot of heat. Hopefully someone can help.
Below some pictures where I tried to number the likely candidates...
The front:
The back:
The CPU cooler I'm planning to use for the main chip
Thanks!