Hi everyone,
I started this build after receiving the Chenbro NR12000 1U 1x 8m QUAD CORE E3-1240 3.3GHz 16GB RAM NO HDD and the disks from 3TB SAS disks that were in group buy.
I thought those 10 disks would perfectly fit into this server, But, I figured out that I cannot connect those SAS2 disk directly to the Chenbro server. So, as mentioned above in the post, I went ahead and bought 3 of these. They arrived today and now I see that I still cannot connect the disks because the motherboard doesn’t take the Mini SAS 36 SFF-8087. So, what would be a better move going forward?
- Should I just buy regular SATA disks and buy a server that takes these SAS2 disks later?
- Or should I buy a SAS2 to SATA connectors like these
I would really appreciate any suggestions/help. I’m a software person dipping my toes in the hardware land so really don’t have much idea about the connectors.
Thanks.