I am looking at getting a Supermicro 6047R-E1R36N but I have zero familiarity with Supermicro. The board inside the system is apparently a DA0S50MB8D which seems to be a decent but older dual xeon board, it comes with two quad core CPU's and 52GB of RAM, no drives but 24 sleds. I want to run it as a JBOD server, but the board apparently doesn't do JBOD, so I am curious about how I would physically connect a couple of SUPERMICRO AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 to the backplane, or is that not the best idea? What kind of cable am I looking for? I currently have an Areca 1280 SATA raid controller that does do JBOD, but its breakout cables are for individual SATA ports which I don't think are going to work with this Supermicro backplane. I emailed Supermicro support about lager than 2TB drive support and they said the backplane is fine for larger drives.
Thoughts? Suggestions? What do I need?
Thoughts? Suggestions? What do I need?