drives

For an older server (sandy/ivy generation) that has a SAS2 backplane I've added a LSI2008-based card (flashed to IT-mode), but procuring drives from that era is getting harder. There are plenty of SAS3 drives available though, new and used. So the question is: which SAS3 drives are to be...

Hi everyone. I'm looking for a 5-drive hot swap cage that sits in a 3x5.25 bay. I've used icyDocks in the past and haven't had the best luck so I'm wondering if Supermicro cages are better quality. Does anyone have (3) of these kind of cages that hold 5 drives (3.5") and fit in a 3x5.25 bay...

10 x 4TB SAS2 WD GOLD / RE4 3.5" DRIVES £75 e/a Got 10 of these drives for sale as I have upgraded to bigger disks SAS2 Hard drives in excellent full working condition, all 7200RPM and SAS2 (6GBs) Smart Data fully available prior to purchase for anyone wishing a copy of it WD Spec Sheet...

Hi all, I'd love to run a Proxmox setup for my home server and really like the flexibility that BTRFS seems to offer for my personal files and media, but I know that BTRFS isn't great with VMs (by default) nor integrated into Proxmox. So I'm wondering whether I can do some sort of mix of ZFS...

*** Massive update 2019 06 08 *** I started this bargain bin thread because my main FS/FT/WTB/WTT post is too large to add anything to: FS/FT/WTB/WTT: LSI SAS2/SAS3, Supermicro chassis, motherboards procs ram, HP Microserver, 10G, etc Bargain Systems and Chassis: I have several bargain...