Hey all.
I'm putting a new Unraid box together and I've made some changed along the way that has compounded some things for me.
The new build is based off of a i5 12600K. Unfortunately due to consumer motherboard limitations, I'm stuck with only two PCI 4.0 x16 slots and a PCI 5.0 x16 slot. My plan is to fill those with a 5gb 1060, dual port Mellanox 10gbe (HP branded) and a HBA. The on-board M.2 slots will be filled with four 500gb SN750's, one pool for cache, one for docker and VM's.
Initially, I was planning on running only my two external shelfs, a DS2246 (24x2.5) and a EMC KTN-STL3 (15x3.5).
But... I've since stumbled across a pair of SM chassis that I'll end up using one of to house them in. One chassis is a 822T-400LPB w/ 6x3.5" LFF, SATA backplane. The other is a 826, but that's all I know about it right now, I bought it with next to no detail, other than it's 12x3.5 LFF, plus the 2x2.5 rear option. I have no idea if the backplane on it is SATA or SFF, but either way, I'm assuming I'm going to need more ports on the HBA.
Initially I was going to try to find something like a 8i8e or 16/24i, then use a adapter to pull the internal ports external to run the external shelfs, but from my bit of searching, it doesn't look like anything is available in a half height card that will fit in a 2U chassis.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Port expanders maybe? I have zero experience with them. While I have high speed storage via the NVME drives, I'd like to keep reasonable throughput through the HBA. I'm open to any suggestions you guys may have!
I'm putting a new Unraid box together and I've made some changed along the way that has compounded some things for me.
The new build is based off of a i5 12600K. Unfortunately due to consumer motherboard limitations, I'm stuck with only two PCI 4.0 x16 slots and a PCI 5.0 x16 slot. My plan is to fill those with a 5gb 1060, dual port Mellanox 10gbe (HP branded) and a HBA. The on-board M.2 slots will be filled with four 500gb SN750's, one pool for cache, one for docker and VM's.
Initially, I was planning on running only my two external shelfs, a DS2246 (24x2.5) and a EMC KTN-STL3 (15x3.5).
But... I've since stumbled across a pair of SM chassis that I'll end up using one of to house them in. One chassis is a 822T-400LPB w/ 6x3.5" LFF, SATA backplane. The other is a 826, but that's all I know about it right now, I bought it with next to no detail, other than it's 12x3.5 LFF, plus the 2x2.5 rear option. I have no idea if the backplane on it is SATA or SFF, but either way, I'm assuming I'm going to need more ports on the HBA.
Initially I was going to try to find something like a 8i8e or 16/24i, then use a adapter to pull the internal ports external to run the external shelfs, but from my bit of searching, it doesn't look like anything is available in a half height card that will fit in a 2U chassis.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Port expanders maybe? I have zero experience with them. While I have high speed storage via the NVME drives, I'd like to keep reasonable throughput through the HBA. I'm open to any suggestions you guys may have!