Bought the case that recently dropped in #techdeals and plan to use it to replace an ancient synology that currently houses my photo backup from my bigger server.
Since this is going to only house a small subset of my data my plan is to fill it with a mix of SATA and SAS drives that I have on hand (replacing as more funds/needs arise)
Would love to have a ‘what did I miss’ review as I’m new to the backplane world (my other system I’ve just got SAS->Mobo
And of course, open to alternate suggestions/links if interchangeable parts
I’d hold off on that HBA for the moment. JDM’s reverse sas cable can connect the 4 drives to your motherboard.
We’ll find out more this week as our units arrive and we start testing drives and temps.
If you’re looking to go 6 drives, then you need the HBA. I’d suggest the H1110 to save some money though. The tradeoff is future use of the 9207-8i in a different chassis vs the H1110’s 4 port limitation.
If you were to use a SAS HBA, I’d highly recommend something like an ASR-78165 so you have room for external expansion. This would also allow you to use an SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 cable internally.
Do you plan on using Unraid, TrueNAS, or something else?
I’d recommend this CPU cooler instead, it’s cheaper and better.
The cable link is the Arctic CPU cooler (which I’ve swapped in, thanks!)
And planning to throw Unraid on it
and why the more expensive ASR? I haddn’t planned on hooking this to a DAS, this was just going to be a basic back up for non-media files. Currently they’re <10TB in storage and this was going to just be a subordinate system to my primary