Tell me about SAS expanders

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ChRoNo16

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I have been told I can run a case of harddrives for storage, without actually building a whole server.

I already have one to connect the drives to somehow.

Now if someone will educate me on how this all works that would be great


cliffnotes
have HP DL380 g6
need storage space badly
have extra rackmount cases for drives
 
A little more information would be useful. What is your host operating system? How much storage do you currently have and how fast has it been/do you foresee it growing yearly? What is your use case for the storage (VM, mail, basic file serving etc?) What is your budget for this project?
 
ESXi 6.5.0/ idk its like 1.2tb across the 3 data stores. not nearly enough. Growing yearly? no, probably every few years. mostly VM/ basic file sharing and idk on budget, not concerned the price of drives atm- looking for help figuring out how this idea will work as far as connections and go from there
 
I believe 6g is fine, the current drives in the hp are all 6gb sas, and I have no issues with sluggish system performance at all.

at least 4+ drives- I am thinking of slapping like 1tb drives together, maybe 2tb if I can find a good deal


Also for some reason that page fails to load for me
 
for that many drives, you don't really need an expander. raid or hba card with 2 external sff-8088 ports, run 2 sff-8088 mini sas cables to your external enclosure into a sff-8088 to sff-8087 adapter with sata/sas breakout cables at the end. that will run 8 drives.
 
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