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I've finally received the 8087<=>8088 cable from HK. The JBOD works fine, however the hairdryer noise is astounding. I can replace the 80mm fans easily, are they making most of the noise ? And are the drives cooled enough with less powerful fans ? I also have a 40mm fan (currently used to move air on my M1015) but I feel it's too slow for the PSU so I'll order another one.
Also, some of the caddies are very hard to operate, I worry they'll break, have you had this problem ?
dalek, thanks. do you have a link to the PS fan you bought? that is the single loudest thing in my IT corner right now
... I'm thinking that PSU fan is really unnecessary in a home environment though, it must be designed for extreme conditions, I'm contemplating using the 3-4CFM 40mm I have and drilling holes in the PSU cover.
I bought 2 of these units
Can anybody tell me if I could connect this unit to a HP P410 unit? Or could perhaps someone suggest an nice cheap alternative?
P410 will limit you to 2TB drives.
You need a 8087-8088 cable like I bought, or a backplane doing the conversion.
I got the serial port working. The trick was that the cable connecting the front panel 8P8C modular connector to the SAS expander board is connected incorrectly. If you take the (rainbow colored) ribbon cable where it plugs in to the header connector labeled RS232 on the SAS expander board and rotate it 180 degrees and plug it in, the front panel connector will work with a Cisco 8P8C to DB25 or DB9 adapter.
The console responded at 115Kbps 8n1 and had no login required.
If you look at the other ribbon cables connecting to the SAS expander, you'll note that all of them have the cable go over the top before looping back into the connector. By contrast, the ribbon cable for the serial port has all the wires go directly in to the connector from the side the cable comes from. When you add in that the header connector on the ribbon cable for the serial port is not keyed, I can only assume this was connected incorrectly on purpose to prevent end users from using the serial port, while still being easy for the manufacturer's support personnel to switch around so they could get at the serial port.
I will post photos later.
Thanks, but I don't want any more kids. My youngest two are finally graduating high school next week.Score. Is it too early to say I want to have your children? I had to turn hardware flow control off.
Now to see if I can get it to turn on when power's restored.
I haven't figured this one out yet either, but it is on my list.
I figured it out. On the little power board (about 1.5 inch square mounted to the bottom of the chassis) there is a jumper J3. If you connect the two pins of J3 to the first two pins of J1 where the front panel power switch normally connects, the system will power on a couple seconds after applying power.Yeah, after playing with it for a bit, I couldn't find it either. And, I've never been able to find any docs on the commands out there. I'm sure it can be done, just need to know what flag to change in there.
I'm probably going to leave the front power switch disconnected and just use a two pin cable from J3 to where the power switch is connected on J1. But I do plan to connect the power LED back up.Could you post a larger pic of the power board? I see the J3 and J1 jumpers, but I don't see how you connected them. Or, did you just take out the 2 wires from the connector, and hook them up to J1?
edit:
Never mind, I found the full sized one. Guess I have to figure out a good way to jumper them.
I'm probably going to leave the front power switch disconnected and just use a two pin cable from J3 to where the power switch is connected on J1. But I do plan to connect the power LED back up.
But all that has to wait. I'm headed out of town for a week. I will update when I am back and able to work on it some more.
easy to silence the noise for me...Any long term ZFS users for this DAS?
Just asking has there been any problems or such with ZFS + SE3016 combination?
Cheap boxes indeed and easy to silence?
I've been running this combo for almost a year now with zero issues. I haven't yet done the PS fan mod, since it's a hassle, but I do now have the parts for it...
Would this be a good solution for cheap long-term storage using snapraid? I have the drives to populate it,
Any reason why there haven't been any sales on this for a while on ebay? Is there something better out in this price range?
Don't know if there's anything out there better priced since I haven't looked lately, but I personally use one of these with FlexRAID (Very similar to SnapRAID), and it works like a charm.
I know quite a few people from [H] have picked one up for their own setups. They are pretty cheap, and not as good as Supermicro and so forth, but they work and seem to be fairly reliable.
Just a warning, the build-in fans are quite loud (2x80mm at rear of case and 1x40mm inside the PSU - the 40mm is the loudest). If sound levels will bother you, then you're going to want to replace the fans. There is room to mount 120mm fans on the back but you'll need to Mod the case. The 40mm PSU fan is also using a non-standard plug, so you'll have to lop off the plug from the original 40mm fan and splice it onto the new fan (or make an adapter using spare extensions or something).
After modding it, it's pretty damn quiet, and the heat temps are still OK.
Any long term ZFS users for this DAS?
Just asking has there been any problems or such with ZFS + SE3016 combination?
Cheap boxes indeed and easy to silence?