Recent content by xtream1101

longblock454 I have not been here in a while, but got an email notification about this thread because of your post and damn it brings back some memories. I posted in this thread way back in the day (https://hardforum.com/threads/h-ard-forum-storage-showoff-thread.1847026/#post-1041328562) My...

Total: 87T One Case: 63T Supermicro SC846E16 & 2 x SE3016 SAS expanders 2 x SuperMicro 900 Watt Supermicro X8DTE-F motherboard 2 x Xeon 5570 @ 2.93GHz 24GB DDR3 1333 Ram Adaptec 5805 HW Raid card 6 x Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2T (HD204UI) 9 x Seagate Barracuda 3T (ST3000DM001) 12 x WD Red 4T...

Yes the SE3016 is just plug and play. I love them because you can daisy chain them together when you need more and do not have any free sas ports on your raid card. Send them a message, I did a local pick up from ebay before, you have to let them know before you buy it so they can take the...

@cantalup I always thought that telco racks were not very deep. So what makes a telco rack different from a server rack? I will be replacing the rear fans eventually, they are not very loud. Either way I love this rack!

I have the fans setup as an exhaust because I have the cases mounted in the front of my rack. These cases are made to be able to mount back-to-back in a rack, so in that setup the rear case would have to have the fans reverse.

The SE3016 is the best solution from what I have found. I have 2 of them and they work great. The fans are not to loud but I stll upgraded them to be super quite. Here are pics of my modded SE3013 http://imgur.com/a/8CI02

I got the rack off CL, not sure of the model. It is a sound proofing foam that outlines the interior of the rack. It works very well though I do still want to get quieter fans for the supermicro case I just added. There are 3 high flow fans in the top rear of the rack as seen in the picture of...

Raw: 86T Usable: 59.073T Supermicro SC846E16 & 2 x SE3016 SAS expanders 2 x SuperMicro 900 Watt Supermicro X8DTE-F 2 x Xeon 5570 @ 2.93GHz 4 x G.SKILL Ripjaws 4Gb sticks Adaptec 5805 HW Raid card 8 x Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2T (HD204UI) 10 x Seagate Barracuda 3T (ST3000DM001) 10 x WD Red 4T...

I have not had any issues with my Adaptec 5805 controller in my Supermicro 846E16 case with WD RED's. I wanted to let people know that they do work well together. I am sorry for the issues OP is having and hope it gets fixed.