Hey guys,
My work was throwing out hardware they didn't need and I managed to grab a Supermicro SC836E16-R1200B chassis, 10x 1.5T and 4x 1T Seagate disks. My plan here is to migrate my existing ZFS pool (6.2T used) to a new pool consisting out of 1 RAID-Z2 on the 10x 1.5T to be used as storage and creating a 2x mirror on the 1T disks for the more active workload, adding to this I will insert my existing 1T ZFS mirror for the OS.
The chassis came with a basic JBOD board but I want to move my existing server hardware into this new chassis, so far I've found out that my ASUS P8B-C/4L motherboard requires a breakout cable for the FP headers (Which I've managed to find) but I was wondering if there are any other things I might encounter before I attempt this move.
The only things I found out so far is that the PDU has a cable coming out of it which I probably wont be able to connect to my motherboard and that the fans are way to loud for placing it in my closet. My plan is to replace the fans with Noctua NF-A8 PWM fans, anyone got better suggestions?
And another question, according to the manual of the SC836 there should be 3 fixed 2.5" mounting points, any idea where these mounting points are? Or do they mean the 3 small bays aligned next to to the power button?
My work was throwing out hardware they didn't need and I managed to grab a Supermicro SC836E16-R1200B chassis, 10x 1.5T and 4x 1T Seagate disks. My plan here is to migrate my existing ZFS pool (6.2T used) to a new pool consisting out of 1 RAID-Z2 on the 10x 1.5T to be used as storage and creating a 2x mirror on the 1T disks for the more active workload, adding to this I will insert my existing 1T ZFS mirror for the OS.
The chassis came with a basic JBOD board but I want to move my existing server hardware into this new chassis, so far I've found out that my ASUS P8B-C/4L motherboard requires a breakout cable for the FP headers (Which I've managed to find) but I was wondering if there are any other things I might encounter before I attempt this move.
The only things I found out so far is that the PDU has a cable coming out of it which I probably wont be able to connect to my motherboard and that the fans are way to loud for placing it in my closet. My plan is to replace the fans with Noctua NF-A8 PWM fans, anyone got better suggestions?
And another question, according to the manual of the SC836 there should be 3 fixed 2.5" mounting points, any idea where these mounting points are? Or do they mean the 3 small bays aligned next to to the power button?
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