[OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

[Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients Amstafs ::..]

I got this one : http://www.sharkoon.com/?q=en/node/1824

Bought it for about 30 euro's

Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,



                Floris van Essen

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Saso Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov.ml at gmail.com] 
Verzonden: woensdag 12 februari 2014 20:50
Aan: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
Onderwerp: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

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.)

Cheers,
--
Saso

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