[OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

[Ben Taylor]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 2/12/14, 7:16 PM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Ben Taylor <bentaylor.solx86 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > 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
>
> Neat little box. What's the price on one of these? (Cursory search on
> Amazon turned up empty.)
>
>
List runs like $99, Ebay new is running about $77.  Upon closer inspection,
these only take
the low profile disks, so I would need the 4x2.5" chassis to handle the
enterprise SAS disks I have.

Ben