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Question for anyone who can tell me:
I forgot to buy the screws, so I'm looking at different auctions. Do I need "Undercut Low Profile" screw heads, or are the standard flat head ones fine. Here are two auctions with the differences:
Standard: Clicky
Undercut Low Profile: Clicky
Can someone who bought one of these confirm which one (or both) will work?
Here you go: (Pick one)
http://discountechnology.com/Counter-Sunk-Screws-6-32-x-0-25-for-Dell-trays-x-100
http://discountechnology.com/Counte...25-with-100-degree-angle-for-Dell-trays-x-100
I ordered both as I wasn't sure which angle I needed and I was shipping to Canada so didn't want to have to order twice - however BOTH fit just fine and screw flush.
Bought one of these in a kit off of eBay that included the LSI-8888ELP and a SAS cable. I'm running it on WHS v1, which is a pain in the ass to use 3TB HDD's on anyway, so the LSI-8888ELP will be fine for now with 2TB HDD's.
Question for anyone who can tell me:
I forgot to buy the screws, so I'm looking at different auctions. Do I need "Undercut Low Profile" screw heads, or are the standard flat head ones fine. Here are two auctions with the differences:
Standard: Clicky
Undercut Low Profile: Clicky
Can someone who bought one of these confirm which one (or both) will work?
I was planning on getting 2 of M1015s (I already have 2x AOC-SASLP-MV8 for x4 slots, that I used in my old setup in a Norco case), or maybe even getting 4 of M1015s just to avoid mixing (I know they would not be up the full potential in x4 slots). I found these boxes only yesterday and was in disbelief that they could be that cheap. I spent more than 24 hours just now reading and looking for the explanations, what the hell is up with them. I could not find any that made me want want them less, on the contrary. But I digress, I found these boxes and I saw, that I need these kind of "other/external" connections. I didn't even know I could get M1015s and use that brackety thing That.s awesome. I have read tons about M1015s - they're dirt cheap and everyone praises them.Instead of getting the LSI card you listed you can save some cash by getting an IBM M1015 off of eBay ($75 each) or two and one of these 2 port external SAS connector which will get you 4 external ports but if you are daisy chaining these into one big ZFS pool then you should only need 1 card. If you are looking for more performance then you can get 2 cards. If performance is your objective I would still go with 2 cards instead of the single 4 port card you have listed.
Keep in mind there are a few things about these cases:
The single PSU would be my biggest worry if you plan to spin that many disks at once.
- They are loud, so hopefully you have a server closet for these
- They have a single power supply, so with that many spinning drives it could be a problem
- They do the job, but they are NOT going to get you SuperMicro quality
But, if you look at 4 of these filled with drives (per the info in #248) then there could be potential issues if the whole drive cage goes out due to a power supply failure. Even in a SOHO or SMB environment a UPS will not fix this situation. Just something to think about.
Has anyone had luck changing out the PSU for this? The mounting for it isn't standard, so I don't think superglue would be a good idea. ;-)
I switched out the 2 80mm fans for some quieter ones, and that did seam to help a lot. Now I just want to get rid of the power supply whine.
What determines hard drive capacity compatibility? The expander or the RAID card it's plugged into?
Thinking about these boxes for my upcoming storage server revamp and I'd like to be able to use 3 and 4 TB drives in JBOD with WHS 2011.
replace PSU 40mm Fan with lower RPM .....as I did
OK, I picked up a 40x40x10 SilientX fan this morning. Get the case of the PSU off, and swap it out. The pins won't fit on the header. So, I ran the cable outside of the PSU, and plugged it into one of my other fans. It powers up for about 5 seconds, then dies. I'm guessing that it's stopping because it doesn't see the fan.
So, cantalup, what fan did you get? or did you just change out the header somehow?
While it was running it was nice and quite.
cut the cable and do little soldering .
PSU will shut down when does not sense fan rotation(yellow cable) . this assumes that the fan is not functional.
How come I knew you were going to say something like that. Guess I get to brush up on my soldering skills.
OmniStor SE3016: Half-Depth SAS Expansion Storage Solution
The OmniStor SE3016 provides a SAS-attached external expansion solution, in a 3U half-depth rack-mount chassis, with 16 SAS or SATA-II hot swap disk drives. Host servers may daisy chain up to six SE3016 systems per server controller card, which provides a rack-density up to 432TB.
Product Highlights: SAS-attached external expansion storage
Half-depth 3U rack-mount chassis
Up to 16 SAS or SATA-II hot-swap disk drives per system
Up to 16.0TB of storage capacity (SATA II) per chassis
Up to 32 disk drives and 32.0TB of storage capacity per 3U of rack space
Connect up to three SE3016 systems to a single server host per SAS daisy chain, or up to six per RAID adapter
Model SE3016
Chassis Profile 3U half-depth chassis
Chassis Mount Half-depth back-to-back for double density, or 2-post from center mount
Host Interfaces Two external SFF-8088 mini-SAS interfaces (front cabled)
Disk Drive Options Up to 16 hot-swappable 3.5" SAS or SATA II drives or SSDs
Max. Capacity Up to 16.0TB (with 1TB SATA II drives)
RAID Support Compatible with server-based SAS RAID and JBOD cards
Power Supply Auto-switching 100-240 VAC or -48 VDC
Dimensions (H x W x D) 5.25" x 17" x 15.5"
So I just received one of those, a little bit unexpected but it was on eBay in Europe so I could avoid 500$ of shipping. I had no time to prepare so I can't plug the thing since I have an M1015 card, no SFF8088 connector. The cheapest (and most direct) route seems to be a 1m 8087=>8088 cable, should I order that or is it not recommended ?