Supermicro 826 backplane in 825 case, anyone tried it?

[AveryFreeman]

Hey,

I'm stuck with a Supermicro CSE-825TQ-R540UB case, and I just got a new motherboard for it, and now I'm realizing there's only the TQ-style backplanes available for it, I can't upgrade it to a backplane with a SAS expander (for multipath)

I was wondering if anyone's tried to put an 826 backplane in an 825 case? I'm thinking if the 8 drives in the 825 case at least line up with the bottom 8 of the 826 expander, it might work, the top 4 drive connectors might just be obscured ... (?)

If anyone has any idea, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks

 

[jrdnlc]

iirc the mounting points and the metal bracket are different on both of those models

 

[AveryFreeman]

Cool, thanks for the heads up. Cases are super expensive right now, otherwise I'd get a new one - seems like the prices keep going up.

 

[Fritz]

Yea, I've been wondering why prices have been going up. Guess people are at home due to COVID19 with nothing to do but build new servers to pass the time, lol.

 

[Markess]

Yea, I've been wondering why prices have been going up. Guess people are at home due to COVID19 with nothing to do but build new servers to pass the time, lol.

Hey, that's me!

 

[AveryFreeman]

Hey, that's me!

Yep that's me too - definitely been ramping up! Glad we're not at the other end becoming homeless...