On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov...@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 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss