Recent content by sha-1024

hi. I did end up purchasing http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2u/6027/ssg-6027r-e1r12l.cfm which is supposed to have the onboard 2308 flashed in IT mode. The reseller promised me it would be so with promise to return if it doesn't work out. Since it has an expander backplane I won't...

typo in my post. Looks tricky :( I had heard that supermicro provides a version of the board with the 2308 already in IT mode...

Hi - I'm looking at using a supermicro server to build an all-in-one ESXi box, with 10-12 internal drives and passthrough storage to FreeNAS/FreeBSD/Solaris or Nexenta. Ideally I would like to have it also capable of managing an exernal SAS JBOD. I already have the X9Dri with ESXI 5.1 installed...