I can confirm that 4TB+ drives work. I know that some people were inquiring about that on Reddit. I have 12x 6TB WD drives (6 Enterprise RE and 6 NAS Red) , all of them SATA. No alarm noise or anything. Didn't have to use any interposers. Works 100% just as well as with SAS drives.I'm currently using a mix of HP and Dell (Seagate) 2TB SAS drives, but I have a bunch of 6TB WD SATA drives on order, once they get in I will report on alarms (don't plan on using it with interposers).
Which noctua fans did you use and does the chassis show an error? Also, what did you use to space out the fans to connect them to the support brackets in the housing?Also just registered to add my 2 cents
I replaced the fans in the power supplies with noctuas and haven't had any issues - they're all running at about the same temps that they were inside my main tower before they moved out (between 85-100* F) and are extremely quiet.
I was able to buy 4-pin PWM to Dell 5-pin adapters (specifically these ones, there are others), disconnect the 5-pin end and swap on the ones from the original Dell fans (I did this rather than swap the ends directly onto the Noctuas as I wanted some flexibility to swap out for other normal PWM fans if they weren't performing as required). The stock fans are, as stated, incredibly noisy and living in a studio apartment pushed me to making these things comfortable to be around.
I'm about to add a 2nd controller to each sc200 and some interposer boards on the sata drives (there's a sas drive running in there as well) so I can hopefully access all of the drives from another box (also to be connected via an LSI 9201-16e HBA), will report back results.
Which interposer boards did you use and where can I find them? My Dell H800 sees the 4TB sata drives but I do not get lights on the drives. I'm going to try pulling one of the controllers to see if I then get drive connection and activity lights.Also just registered to add my 2 cents
I have 2 of these connected to an ubuntu box via an LSI 9201-16e HBA and have had zero issuse with them. Mix of drive sizes, from 1TB up to 8TB drives shucked from WD easystores.
I replaced the fans in the power supplies with noctuas and haven't had any issues - they're all running at about the same temps that they were inside my main tower before they moved out (between 85-100* F) and are extremely quiet.
I was able to buy 4-pin PWM to Dell 5-pin adapters (specifically these ones, there are others), disconnect the 5-pin end and swap on the ones from the original Dell fans (I did this rather than swap the ends directly onto the Noctuas as I wanted some flexibility to swap out for other normal PWM fans if they weren't performing as required). The stock fans are, as stated, incredibly noisy and living in a studio apartment pushed me to making these things comfortable to be around.
I'm about to add a 2nd controller to each sc200 and some interposer boards on the sata drives (there's a sas drive running in there as well) so I can hopefully access all of the drives from another box (also to be connected via an LSI 9201-16e HBA), will report back results.
I'd be really interested in this too. Really want to do that fan mod.Which noctua fans did you use and does the chassis show an error? Also, what did you use to space out the fans to connect them to the support brackets in the housing?
I just cut off the connector from the SC220 fan and used it on the new fan.Just wondering but can any interposers be used with it or does it need to be specific dell ones? if its the dell one can I have a PN?
Mine does the exact same thing after the fan replacement.I just got the A8 PWM redux fans and replaced all 4 fans in a SC220.
The disk shelf starts up in an fault state, but goes away after boot for a while. It will then go back into a fault state, but I may just ignore it since the fans are so much quieter.
I ran some sas commands on the disk shelf and the fault appears to be from the fans and is probably from them spinning too slow. They are listed as running between 1875-2250 rpm, so they should be connected correctly. The temps that are reported from the disk shelf are between 28-40C so that should be good too.
I haven't used this much since it was so loud before, but will probably start using it now for some SSD's and see if it has any issues with the lower airflow from the new fans.
what drives & how many drives do you have in there?Mine does the exact same thing after the fan replacement.
I'm not familiar with the sas commands you mentioned, but my shelf is running hot.... really hot. The drives in the center of the shelf get so hot you can't touch them. I've turned everything off until I work out what the problem is.