[OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

[Ben Taylor]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 2/11/14, 7:59 PM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> > That's a cool unit.  Could use something like that internal drive bay
> that
> > supported SAS disks.
>
> Don't know if somebody mentioned it before, but the MicroServer's
> internal drive bays use SAS connectors and they are all plumbed into the
> motherboard using a single SFF-8087 connector, so if you get an internal
> SAS HBA into the PCI-e x8 slot on the server, you can just unplug the
> SFF-8087 from the motherboard and plug it into your HBA. Here you can
> also see the SFF-8087 cable plugging into the motherboard left of the
> drive tray: http://tinyurl.com/npa6kow
>

That's also good to know.  I've found a 4 x 2.5" SAS 5.25" single drive
bay, and some 8 x 2.5" SAS 5.25" double drive bay.  The 6 disk single would
be perfect as I've got a stack of 2.5" SAS disks

Thinking about it, I should probably just repurpose my Intel DP35DP/Q7700
for a storage server.

Ben