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No, the controllers in the JBOD were managing the RAID and the Disks then presenting the data to the connected hosts. Maybe those ports on the JBOD controllers were part of a SAS switch built directly into the controllers so to speak?

In our previous environment we had an HP JBOD with redundant controllers, it was a manages DAS. Each controller had 4 external SFF-8088 ports which were used to connect to servers that could then access the data. I want to accomplish this same setup with a homemade system.

I'm familiar with SAS expanders, but the typical HP 36 port SAS expander only gives my one external port to use for connecting the DAS to my host servers. I have 3 hosts that need access to the data pool. How would this be done? Some of HP's controllers like the P822 give me 4 external ports...

Hello Everyone, I'm a little unfamiliar with this and was hoping to get some clarification on this subject. I am looking to build a DAS box that can host at least 12 drives, preferably 24. This DAS must also be able to connect to at least 3 host machines that will need direct access to the...