So, here's a bit of background...
I purchased 6 3TB drives in ebay. One is failing, so I've reached out to the seller to possibly get a replacement.
The big issue is the hot swap cages in the rosewill RSV-L4412 case. I currently have 6 3tb drives and 3 2tb drives that will go in the system, plus a 1tb and another 250gb drives for things like images, isos, etc.
I'm into this build for about 600 so far. I like the case, but these cages are making it so that I only have about 6 drives showing up in proxmox when they're plugged in to the cages.
For some reason, the cages are also causing drives to not show up on the 6 onboard sata ports, in addition to causing issues with my lsi 9211-8i, which seems weird, but it's definitely happening All drives show up when plugged directly into the onboard sata ports and the SAS breakout cables.
If you were me, would you try and get the cages replaced, or send the whole case back to Newegg for a refund? Would you buy a different case, or a refurbished whole server from the likes of ibm/hp/dell/etc?
I'm on a budget, and don't have much more money available than what I currently have spent.
I'm just not sure which route to go down atm, and could use some advice.
I purchased 6 3TB drives in ebay. One is failing, so I've reached out to the seller to possibly get a replacement.
The big issue is the hot swap cages in the rosewill RSV-L4412 case. I currently have 6 3tb drives and 3 2tb drives that will go in the system, plus a 1tb and another 250gb drives for things like images, isos, etc.
I'm into this build for about 600 so far. I like the case, but these cages are making it so that I only have about 6 drives showing up in proxmox when they're plugged in to the cages.
For some reason, the cages are also causing drives to not show up on the 6 onboard sata ports, in addition to causing issues with my lsi 9211-8i, which seems weird, but it's definitely happening All drives show up when plugged directly into the onboard sata ports and the SAS breakout cables.
If you were me, would you try and get the cages replaced, or send the whole case back to Newegg for a refund? Would you buy a different case, or a refurbished whole server from the likes of ibm/hp/dell/etc?
I'm on a budget, and don't have much more money available than what I currently have spent.
I'm just not sure which route to go down atm, and could use some advice.