Supermicro SC417 88x2.5inch Bay $911.97 Refurb

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PigLover

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Could be a good find for somebody here. Note that most STH users would probably want to use something like this for SSD and the single-expander backplanes may be less than ideal for that. But otherwise very interesting indeed.
 

Patrick

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Nice find! Some of the used SM chassis are nice because they often use standard connectors and are less than half the price of new.
 

hd2012

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Can someone summarize what this can do? just a SAS expander through an external cable to your raid card?
 

Chuckleb

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Yes, exactly. There are usually a pair of SAS SFF-8088 ports on back and acts as a big shell to power up the drives. You need a card on the host end.
 

hd2012

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What are some practical applications for this? There are 88 drives! vmware datastores?
 

Patrick

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I have long thought about a chassis like this almost for that reason @hd2012

I now have a stack of SSDs that is ever growing. My thought was that something like this could be a nice retirement home for those drives that I could use as provisioned storage whenever the need arose.
 

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Can someone summarize what this can do? just a SAS expander through an external cable to your raid card?
This is designed as an external disk chassis for SATA and single-ported SAS drives. It's a powered chassis that connects to a SAS card in your favorite server with anywhere from one to eight SAS connectors depending on how you wire it up.

Internally, you get four backplanes, each of which is an LSI expander backplane with the disks on one side and 3x SAS connectors on the other side. You can rig it in a few different ways. Daisy chained, you could connect all 88 disks to one SFF-8088 port out the back. For maximum throughput, you could wire each backplane a separate SFF-8088 port out back, giving you ~8GB/s worth of throughput.
 

Stanza

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price drop down to $865.97 now

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