Hi I currently have a Norco 4220 with 20 2tb wd se drives but I want to expand it with a jbod enclosure of some sort I have 2 9211-81 on 4 of the backplanes and reverse breakout to mb sata on the other. I own an lsi 9201 16e and there is 1 more pcie 8x slot on the supermicro motherboard for it(x10 sll). I was thinking of Norco ds-24d but not easily avail and expensive. SGI SE 3016 is cheap but poor performance with only 1 3.0 gb/sec 4x link. Can this se3016 be opened up and 4 sff8088-sff8087 cables routed to the backplanes directly?
Advice for expanding Norco RPC-4220 Nas4Free
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You can route cables right to the SAS backplane in the SE3016, or even replace the onboard SAS expander with an Intel RES2SV240. That being said, I get around 950MB/s on syncs in SnapRAID in my SE3016, so it's just about able to saturate the one uplink from my m1015. For my bulk media storage this is fast enough.
Another option is to pick up another 4220 and put in a Supermicro controller board to make it a JBOD chassis or pickup a used Supermicro SC846 on eBay with a SAS2 backplane.
@rubylaser sorry if I missed in your other thread, but did you replace the onboard expander with the Intel unit? If so, notice anything dfiferent?
No I did not. I have a couple Intel SAS2 expanders here at home, but I'm just using the built in expander at this point. I was going to swap it with the Intel one if it didn't work out (so far, so good).
Sure, here is an article from the main site that discusses it http://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-cse-ptjbod-cb1-jbod-power-board-diy-jbod-chassis-made-easy/