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Possible hardware upgrade?
Posted: 17 Feb 2023, 11:28
by Hitori
I have F2-423 and I was wondwring if it's possible to buy only disk drives board as I would like to upgrade from 2 to 4 disk drives? I would then transfer all the hardware to new, custom made case of course.
Re: Possible hardware upgrade?
Posted: 17 Feb 2023, 12:29
by crisisacting
Hitori wrote: ↑17 Feb 2023, 11:28
I have F2-423 and I was wondwring if it's possible to buy only disk drives board as I would like to upgrade from 2 to 4 disk drives? I would then transfer all the hardware to new, custom made case of course.
Doubt there's an official way to purchase the ASMedia PCIe custom made boards that Terra-Master uses; buying a defective unit off the secondhand market is probably the least expensive way to obtain one.
It should be a drop-in replacement; have a F4-220 that came with the F5 backplane (there seems to be a batch of these that made it to market) & the 5th connector is fully functional (am using it for SSD caching).
The motherboards on the 423 series should all be the similar, beyond some that have a Celeron N5095 versus a Celeron N5105 SoC; the UEFI BIOS product ID would differ due to the expansion bay difference (F2, F4, F5).