Greetings, all. I've been a long-time lurker, and finally joined the forum in search of some answers. I recently bought a Supermicro SC846E16-R1200B 24-bay chassis (refurbished on eBay) to upgrade my home NAS, but have some questions.
I have an IBM M5015 (flashed with LSI firmware) that I'll be using in the server, though I noticed that the Supermicro backplane only has 3 SFF8087 connectors. I was under the assumption (whoops) that only 4 SAS/SATA drives could operate on one connector, but the cables that came with the chassis are CBL-0108L-02, which look like they carry 8 drives per SAS cable. Is this correct? If so, then I need to order longer cables...
Are there longer cables available?
Will my M5015 work with this backplane?
Is there a specific jumper configuration on the backplane that I need to setup?
Is there anything else I should know about configuring this chassis?
My current setup is as follows:
Mobo: ASRock Z97 Extreme6
CPU: Intel i5 4670K
HBA/SAS Card: IBM M5015
HDDs: Hitachi 4TB NAS (6x)
RAM: 16GB DDR3
Pardon my ignorance. This is my first real server chassis.
Thanks,
Mike
I have an IBM M5015 (flashed with LSI firmware) that I'll be using in the server, though I noticed that the Supermicro backplane only has 3 SFF8087 connectors. I was under the assumption (whoops) that only 4 SAS/SATA drives could operate on one connector, but the cables that came with the chassis are CBL-0108L-02, which look like they carry 8 drives per SAS cable. Is this correct? If so, then I need to order longer cables...
Are there longer cables available?
Will my M5015 work with this backplane?
Is there a specific jumper configuration on the backplane that I need to setup?
Is there anything else I should know about configuring this chassis?
My current setup is as follows:
Mobo: ASRock Z97 Extreme6
CPU: Intel i5 4670K
HBA/SAS Card: IBM M5015
HDDs: Hitachi 4TB NAS (6x)
RAM: 16GB DDR3
Pardon my ignorance. This is my first real server chassis.
Thanks,
Mike