I bought a SuperMicro 12bay 2U chassis to transplant my Unraid server into, but since buying that, I've upgraded the server and it won't fit anymore. Plus I dunno about putting a 105+W CPU into a 2U chassis plus a power hungry graphics card, so I have it in a 4U chassis.
I still have the 2U chassis and I want to make it into a JBOD. It has the BPN-SAS2-826EL1 back plane, so it takes SFF 8087 connectors. So I need a way to run the 8087 to an HBA with 8088 connectors.
In my cursory research, this is what I've found.
8087-8088 adapter
I figure I can use that to get the hard disk connections outside of the chassis and then I use an HBA compatible with unraid in my main machine. I'm finding conflicting info on the HBA. What do I need?
I still have the 2U chassis and I want to make it into a JBOD. It has the BPN-SAS2-826EL1 back plane, so it takes SFF 8087 connectors. So I need a way to run the 8087 to an HBA with 8088 connectors.
In my cursory research, this is what I've found.
8087-8088 adapter
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SAS Adapter 2X Internal SFF-8087 to 2X External SFF-8088 Slot. Hardware Interface SAS. SAS Adapter. Internal SFF-8087 to External SFF-8088 (Slot). Up to 6Gb/s.
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I figure I can use that to get the hard disk connections outside of the chassis and then I use an HBA compatible with unraid in my main machine. I'm finding conflicting info on the HBA. What do I need?