Hi Guys,
It's time to upgrade my FN, i have Purchased a used SM CS846 Chassis that came with SAS846TQ backplane. at the moment i'm using Avago/Broadcom SAS3 9300-i8 HBA that connects straight to my 4TB x 8 HDD and have 6 x SSD plugged directly to the SATA ports on the X10SRi-F MOBO, see full description of my FN in my signature. The Goal is high performance, future proof, reliability and neath solution by using SAS3 throughout to get 12Gbps. i would like your advice of the best option available in my case. here is the two i was thinking about
Option 1 -
Backplane - BPN-SAS-846A + HBA - LSI 9305-24i + 6 x mini SAS HD cables
with this option the downfall is the backplane is 6Gbps and the HBA is 12Gbps and i would need to purchase a new HBA. The pros i will have a direct connection to drives i.e every 4 drives connects to one port on the HBA.
Option 2 -
Backplane - BPN-SAS3-846EL1 + HBA - LSI 9300-8i + 1 x mini SAS HD cable
This is my favourite option i can use my HBA, SAS3 throughout to get 12Gbps, very neath solution only one cable better airflow, however as i'm using one uplink for all drives (MAX 24 when i add more) which will cause a bottleneck and limiting my bandwidth.
please let me know which option i should go with or if there are better options?
Thank you
Edit Typo: BPN-SAS3-846ELI to BPN-SAS3-846EL1 thank you @ari2asem
Hypervisor: ESXi 6.7 U2
SAN: FreeNAS-11.2 U5
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 780T White Full-Tower x3 included AF140L 140mm fans and x6 3.5" Bays
Extra Bays: Custom fit x2 Silverstone 5.25" to 3.5" Drive bay bracket and add Silverstone FP58 Black 5.25"
Motherboard: SuperMicro X10SRi-F
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2683 V3 MHz 2 GHz LGA 2011
Cooler: Noctua NH-U9DX i4
PSU: Corsair RMx1000W
RAM: Crucial 2 x 16GB + 2 x 32GB DDR4 ECC 2400MHz Total 96GB
HBA: LSI SAS 9300-i8 (Flashed to LSI 9300-i8 P16 IT)
Pool: 8 x HGST Deskstar 4TB
ESXi Boot device: Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD
SLOG/L2ARC/Swap: Intel® Optane™ SSD 900P series 280GB NVMe PCIe
Datastores: x2 Samsung 860 PRO 256GB SSD , x2 Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD, Intel SSD 540 120GB
USBs: 2 x 32GB Sandisk Cruiser Fit 3.0
Blu Ray: LG BH16NS55
It's time to upgrade my FN, i have Purchased a used SM CS846 Chassis that came with SAS846TQ backplane. at the moment i'm using Avago/Broadcom SAS3 9300-i8 HBA that connects straight to my 4TB x 8 HDD and have 6 x SSD plugged directly to the SATA ports on the X10SRi-F MOBO, see full description of my FN in my signature. The Goal is high performance, future proof, reliability and neath solution by using SAS3 throughout to get 12Gbps. i would like your advice of the best option available in my case. here is the two i was thinking about
Option 1 -
Backplane - BPN-SAS-846A + HBA - LSI 9305-24i + 6 x mini SAS HD cables
with this option the downfall is the backplane is 6Gbps and the HBA is 12Gbps and i would need to purchase a new HBA. The pros i will have a direct connection to drives i.e every 4 drives connects to one port on the HBA.
Option 2 -
Backplane - BPN-SAS3-846EL1 + HBA - LSI 9300-8i + 1 x mini SAS HD cable
This is my favourite option i can use my HBA, SAS3 throughout to get 12Gbps, very neath solution only one cable better airflow, however as i'm using one uplink for all drives (MAX 24 when i add more) which will cause a bottleneck and limiting my bandwidth.
please let me know which option i should go with or if there are better options?
Thank you
Edit Typo: BPN-SAS3-846ELI to BPN-SAS3-846EL1 thank you @ari2asem
Hypervisor: ESXi 6.7 U2
SAN: FreeNAS-11.2 U5
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 780T White Full-Tower x3 included AF140L 140mm fans and x6 3.5" Bays
Extra Bays: Custom fit x2 Silverstone 5.25" to 3.5" Drive bay bracket and add Silverstone FP58 Black 5.25"
Motherboard: SuperMicro X10SRi-F
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2683 V3 MHz 2 GHz LGA 2011
Cooler: Noctua NH-U9DX i4
PSU: Corsair RMx1000W
RAM: Crucial 2 x 16GB + 2 x 32GB DDR4 ECC 2400MHz Total 96GB
HBA: LSI SAS 9300-i8 (Flashed to LSI 9300-i8 P16 IT)
Pool: 8 x HGST Deskstar 4TB
ESXi Boot device: Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD
SLOG/L2ARC/Swap: Intel® Optane™ SSD 900P series 280GB NVMe PCIe
Datastores: x2 Samsung 860 PRO 256GB SSD , x2 Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD, Intel SSD 540 120GB
USBs: 2 x 32GB Sandisk Cruiser Fit 3.0
Blu Ray: LG BH16NS55
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