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I have a Supermicro chassis CSE-217HQ-R1K62MBP (4x servers) with motherboard X9DRT-HF+-NI22. The motherboard has 2x PCI-e slots that are priority Supermicro micro-low profile. The add-on cards they sell seem to be network only, no HBA's. The servers have a backplane with a LSI Logic / Symbios...

Our SAN, for a small video post production facility, uses two Norco enclosures. It's homegrown, and works well, except the enclosures are a problem. When we first built this setup a while back, one of the enclosures came from an auction and one for free from a friend of mine clearing out a...

Hello! Despite the mix of failures and success with users, the price for these Norco RPC chassis cannot be beat, so I've purchased one on order. Hoping to catch the eye of someone who knows the newest build for this chassis. Various other users and "the Internet" have reported strange...

My current build: SuperMicro X9DRL-IF (ATX Form Factor) 2x Xeon 2660 Ubuntu Server 16.04.2 3x8TB 6x6TB (I also have a spare 6x3TB I want to use again) This is stuffed into a full ATX tower with no more room to grow. Every 3-4 months I'm hoping to add 3x8TB to the build. This build has...

Hi, My Supermicro X9SAE died so I need a new server. I'm debating whether to build a new server or buy the HPE ProLiant DL180 Gen 9. My primary use for this server is as a vmware esxi server hosting pfsense, solaris, and a couple of Windows, OS X, Linux and FreeBSD vm's. I'm mostly doing web...

So I'm sure someone has done this and there has to be a few ways to do it... But my raid is near capacity I want to add a second case with a lot of drives in the second case I only want the following: -sas expander (chenbro) -pe-2sd1?? -power supply I want to run a SFF-8088 from case 1 (with...