So, wanted to jump back on this thread and say what a pleasure it was making a purchase from sfbayszfs! Picked up a SM SC216, Intel RES2SV240 SAS expander, CSE-PTJBOD-CB1 power board, a few SFF-8087 to SFF-8088 connectors, rails, SFF-8088 cables and a few internal SFF-8087 cables. All was packaged neatly into a single box and shipped out to Canada in under a week. Extremely helpful throughout and provided a lot of information.
Racked it up. Loaded it up with 24 SSDs and powered it up and thought, wow, these fans scream! It was by far the loudest thing in the rack and I've got nearly 22U occupied with other servers and switches. Swapped out the fans with super quiet simple PC case fans (no motherboard, CPU or RAM in this - just a DAS case) and what a difference. If it weren't for the lights being on, I wouldn't know it was on at all.
All-in-all, extemely happy!
Racked it up. Loaded it up with 24 SSDs and powered it up and thought, wow, these fans scream! It was by far the loudest thing in the rack and I've got nearly 22U occupied with other servers and switches. Swapped out the fans with super quiet simple PC case fans (no motherboard, CPU or RAM in this - just a DAS case) and what a difference. If it weren't for the lights being on, I wouldn't know it was on at all.
All-in-all, extemely happy!