Hotswap bottleneck?

[fs99erab]

Hi,
I am new to server chassis and have been thinking about buying a new server chassi for my home server.
Something like this:
X339-C4 LCD. Short 3u with 4 Hotswap bays

I have a question regarding the hotswap funtionality. I've noticed that in some descriptions, they mention that the chassi support 6gb/s sata and 8 TB hard drives.
Does some hotswap backplanes have restrictions regarding this? I need my chassi to support both 6bg/s sata and 8 TB hard drives.

Br,
Eric

 

[Rand__]

Welcome

Yes, sometimes the backplane is an active component which then needs to support a certain standard to be able to use it. This might happen especially with expander backplanes where you have less cables to the mainboard then drives in the hotswap bay.

Then you have direct attached bays which route the signal through - there it does not matter which drives you add as the signal is not modified.

 

[fs99erab]

Thank you for your quick response!

So if I understand you correctly. If there are as many sata-connectors as there are hotswap spaces. There shouldn't be any problem?

 

[Rand__]

Thats usually the case from my experience, yes. Everything you buy new nowadays should be able to cope with Sata3 as well

 

[fs99erab]

Ok, thank you very much!