Hello
I have a total of 30 10tb wd red pros that have been hooked up directly to my server's motherboard with sas cards->sata cables, and sata piggyback power in two rosewill lsv4500 cases. There is no external jbod unit, just disks connecting directly to the host and consumer grade psu. For reference, theyre all hooked up to the host running linux, using zfs set up in two 12+3 raidz3 configs
Connecting disks this way is of course, a nightmare waiting to happen and not scalable. I'm looking to buy a `4u60 g460-j-12` on ebay to house my drives and would love if someone could answer my absolute noob questions. I've searched these forums as well as gone through the unit's user manual, but so many seemingly simple things are still unknown to me.
I have a total of 30 10tb wd red pros that have been hooked up directly to my server's motherboard with sas cards->sata cables, and sata piggyback power in two rosewill lsv4500 cases. There is no external jbod unit, just disks connecting directly to the host and consumer grade psu. For reference, theyre all hooked up to the host running linux, using zfs set up in two 12+3 raidz3 configs
Connecting disks this way is of course, a nightmare waiting to happen and not scalable. I'm looking to buy a `4u60 g460-j-12` on ebay to house my drives and would love if someone could answer my absolute noob questions. I've searched these forums as well as gone through the unit's user manual, but so many seemingly simple things are still unknown to me.
- Does the unit work with general SATA drives? The user manual doesn't list WD Reds (or any consumer drive). Will this include the upcoming 14tb WD reds and even larger drives for the foreseeable future?
- Does this entire unit only have 12gbs of throughput f0r all 60 drives? If not, how much bandwidth can I expect to pull through it?
- Are there internal sas cards in this unit? If so, is it possible to change out the sas cards in the 4u60 to something of my choosing, like a dell LSI 9206-16e?
- Will I need to worry about noise or thermals of my drives? I've read the G2 is incredibly loud, but would the G1 be quiet enough for normal home use? I'm running all consumer hardware right now so my noise is hardly 40dba, hard drives never above 45 celcius
- Do I just install IT-mode sas cards in my nas's motherboard, and run cables directly to this unit and can see the drives in linux as if they were attached directly?
- The manual says that rows need to be filled with blanks if they are not full. Is a blank just a caddy with no drive? If so, I'll purchase a unit with all 60 caddies so I should be all good?
For reference, here is the back of the unit pulled from an ebay listing , I see some listings have a rear side with 8 mini-sas ports instead, not sure whats going on there, but it makes me believe that the connections on the bottom can somehow be changed out, maybe sas cards too
Any help would be much appreciated, hopefully this post can help others new to this too!