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So I've got an Intel RS2BL040 controller laying around which (a year ago) was supposed to be used for a Supermicro 24-bay LSI expander case. I ended up having to use a 3ware card because the Intel would only recognize 16 drives out of the 24. Intel's product brief on the card specifies...

I don't think you should have any issues; the hardware in the 3u opteron 270 is more robust, not to mention a few years newer [than my racksys]. A year back I found a used systems like your's without processors (3u, 12-bay rackable}. The notable differences: It's power supply is 100w stronger...

They are indeed rackable systems, dual opteron 246 (old school). Microsoft donated two rackfulls of them to a neighboring lab at the university. I'm currently using them to host some old servers in esxi 4. I haven't tried to get the serial management to work however; the old age of these...

It's funny that you say that, our MD3000i is named skynet (and is actually degraded at the moment). The lights do make for a unique photo op:

There wouldn't be much hope for the data if there were actual drives in those trays; it'd be a sh*t show. :p. Speaking of infotrends, are yours still for sale? I'd lIke to buy two of the 24 bays for our lab. Ours are still going strong, but are fairly limited by the dual u160 interfaces.

Fulltime hobby (i'm the sole guardian)/ employment while i'm in school. Backend servers/vm hosts for a university business analytics research lab. The first picture was taken about two years ago, we've come a far ways in terms of reliability, heat output, storage and computing power. The blue...