[OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

[Ben Taylor]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Ben Taylor <bentaylor.solx86 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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> 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
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> Thinking about it, I should probably just repurpose my Intel DP35DP/Q7700
> for a storage server.
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Found this 6x2.5" SAS/Sata/SSD Single 5.25" chassis which looks like
exactly what I want.

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001987

Ben