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I have a plan for a high performance fileserver with a 216b chassis (~700€) and the BPN-NVMe3-216N-S4 backplane (24x u.2 direct attach backplane, ~$350 at wiredzone)

The 846ba has a passive backplane, you will need two additional 8port hba to use all the drive bays

._. Sadly there is a difference between "want" and "need" and that difference will take a lot of money out of my pocket :(

Cheapest listed price for exos x16 16tb sata is now 150%+, mindfactory.de (my reference for "normal" prices) is now at 252% (758€ as of today vs 301€ from 2021-04-02)

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/fusion-io-3-2tb-a-condition-20-available-%C2%A3184-20.26332/post-244759

There was at least one firmware update (currently at 3.53) and some fixes in the release notes are similar to what I described in my previous post. I've updated to that versionen but didn't change my setup in the last ~ 6months, so I can't tell if the problems were solved or not.

You're looking to close. Take a step back and look on it at the system level; mainboard features, rackmount vs tower configurations, cooling options/noise.

Sfp+ supports 10gbe, sdr infiniband, fibre channel, sonet and escon (I never heard of the last two) according to SFF-8472 (https://members.snia.org/document/dl/25916). It should work...

They use dual port sas drives and two expandeers? :D A sas switch are cascaded expanders with sas zoning enabled/configured Microsoft supported this storage spaces setup with dual ported sas devices and dual expanders

Icydock had to add a warning on their site because the backplane used in that cage caused problems with different cables.

@gea

Why exactly v3? Overclocking?

What are you trying to achieve/do with the storage? Mirrors are for performance, but I wouldn't use hdds for that Parity ist for storage efficiency, "great" for hdds

Wiredzone has a good customerservice, ask them to type a serial number of such a ssd into the intel warranty check tool and send you the result :D

If he uses a passive heatsink the fans in the middle will spin at higher rpms -> more noise.