I sifted through the google machine and can’t seem to find an answer to this question, so I thought I’d just ask here since I find myself finding the answers here most of the time anyway.
I have one of the Rosewill 4000 series cases and have filled up all 9 5.25 bays with small, cheap enterprise SSDs using those 8-bay Icydock backplanes. My old Synology backup target is acting flaky, so I thought I could just pop a 4th 9305-24i (a 16i would be enough) HBA in the server and have all the storage in one place, which would be significantly faster for backups and easier to manage.
I have plenty of room between the SSDs and motherboard to mount 3 standard sized 4-bay backplanes in a top access, drop-in configuration. I was thinking of getting a few SuperMicro SATA733 backplanes and 3d print custom drive cages and caddies.
Unfortunately, it seems these SATA733 backplanes are limited to 3Gpbs, which would cut throughput in half, no bueno.
Anyone know of a good passthrough SAS3(2)/SATA6 backplane, or one I can plug in a few SFF-8643 directly to the HBA and build out a custom cage for it?
It would be nice if the backplane supported a remote LED panel so I can have all those satisfying blinking lights and know if there was a drive or fan fault.
I’ve already 3d printed a replacement fan plate to replace the 3x 120mm mid-mounted fans with larger 3x Noctua NF-14 Industrial fans. I’d have to attach the fans to the drive cages, since they would be going where the fan plate is currently. There would be enough room to add another row of NF-14s so I could have a push/pull configuration on the drive cages to overcome some of the airflow loss.
I have one of the Rosewill 4000 series cases and have filled up all 9 5.25 bays with small, cheap enterprise SSDs using those 8-bay Icydock backplanes. My old Synology backup target is acting flaky, so I thought I could just pop a 4th 9305-24i (a 16i would be enough) HBA in the server and have all the storage in one place, which would be significantly faster for backups and easier to manage.
I have plenty of room between the SSDs and motherboard to mount 3 standard sized 4-bay backplanes in a top access, drop-in configuration. I was thinking of getting a few SuperMicro SATA733 backplanes and 3d print custom drive cages and caddies.
Unfortunately, it seems these SATA733 backplanes are limited to 3Gpbs, which would cut throughput in half, no bueno.
Anyone know of a good passthrough SAS3(2)/SATA6 backplane, or one I can plug in a few SFF-8643 directly to the HBA and build out a custom cage for it?
It would be nice if the backplane supported a remote LED panel so I can have all those satisfying blinking lights and know if there was a drive or fan fault.
I’ve already 3d printed a replacement fan plate to replace the 3x 120mm mid-mounted fans with larger 3x Noctua NF-14 Industrial fans. I’d have to attach the fans to the drive cages, since they would be going where the fan plate is currently. There would be enough room to add another row of NF-14s so I could have a push/pull configuration on the drive cages to overcome some of the airflow loss.