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Anyone here know of SATA/SAS HBA 8 port cards low profile
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Well except for the I want to do it cheap part
I've got a 2u Norco hotswap Home brew server. And a Norco hot swap 10 bay for my HTPC.
I bought a HD CARD SUPERMICRO|AOC-SAT2-MV8 R I was hoping to connect 8 drives in the HTPC case to a SAS Centronix device via a cable to a SAS Centronix device (with a low profile bracket) to the 2U serverI found on PCPitStop. They say no low profile. I can use the HD CARD SUPERMICRO|AOC-SAT2-MV8 R, within the server itself for the 8 drives on the server, but how can I get the 8 drives in the HTPC case hooked up to the 2u server without spending $600.00 on a card. The 10 bay HTPC is full ht, so no problems there.
Everything is rack mounted and I wanted to go SAS to have a cable disconnect between the 2 boxes if I have to pull one from the rack
Any help appreciated!
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I had it all worked out for $300.00 till the no "low profile" Maybe a new hot swap case is in order
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Here's the SAS case I have: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/743/SC743TQ-865.cfmThe fans are a touch loud, but it keeps things cool. Right now I only have two 136 GB 15k RPM SAS drives, and two 1 TB 10k RPM SAS drives in it. So I've got plenty of room for future growth.
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Thanks for trying, but those SAS connectors are internal. I need 8 sata connectors on the card (internally) and the SAS connector externally on the slot cover plate, and of course low profile. or The ones I found on PC Pitstop weren't even a card (I already have a card with sata connectors, just a centronixs external port on a bracket and sata ports internally (a coupler and gender changer), but they say no go for low profile. Thanks Again
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I think I found my fix (Thanks Kcarlile). After looking at your link I started thinking. Still a little more research to do, but I think I can use one of these http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-aoc-saslp-mv8~7SUP918N.htmfor $100 and then just run SAS cables thru a slot in the back of the server to SAS Centronex connectors on the back of the HTPC case. Still disconnectable, still connects the 8 drive bays in the HTPC to the server. Not as "clean" but doable, acceptable and cheap....It's the back side of a rack afterall For a little more clarification, I'm using WHS, so don't need hardware raid. just JOBD Think!? I'm there
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Didn't realize WHS would handle that many drives. Impressive.
Anyone virtualizing WHS? We're trying it at work and running into some activation problems.
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Didn't realize WHS would handle that many drives. Impressive.
Anyone virtualizing WHS? We're trying it at work and running into some activation problems. Im a little worried about the transition from the current WHS to vail, now 32 bit, vail 64 bit and NTFS. Lot of data to convert. Think I might need those extra drive bays and a lot of extra disks. Current is built on 2003 server, Vail on 2008 (when it is released) I'm at 7 drives around 9TB right now
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I can't believe i'm saying this, but this sounds a little overkill, no? Whats wrong with setting up a share, or even iSCSI?
I doubt your HTPC is going to require that much IO bandwidth.
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I can't believe i'm saying this, but this sounds a little overkill, no? Whats wrong with setting up a share, or even iSCSI?
I doubt your HTPC is going to require that much IO bandwidth. Well, I actually stumbled upon a different avenue, as you said I really don't need that bandwidth or all the drives hot at once. I ordered 2 e-Sata multiplier (5 drives ea)from Addonics with the matching 2 port card on the server side. Cost about $150, should be here Friday and I should be(hope)I'm good to go. I already have a 8 port sata controller card to replace the 4 port cards currently in the server for the bays in that case.
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Update.....
Well I got it all up and running today and it seems to work well.
I installed the 8 port controller and the 8 port e-sata controller in the server and the 2 each multipliers in the 10 bay hot swap expansion case (also my HTPC case). Before today, I only could use 7 of the 8 sata hot swap bays in the server.
The 2 TB drive in the expansion case is working great. I was also able to install a second full size bluray reader in the expansion case that is feeding back thru to the server thru the multiplier. The newly installed BR reader is ripping BluRays in about a 1/3 the time the slim drive in the server was taking.
13 TB and counting, 8 empty hot swap bays to go, and 6 1.5 TB drives I can swap out for 2 TB drives in the far future.
18 Hot Swap Bays total (one for HTPC recorded TV, HTPC OS drive is internal and a SSD)
Happy so far!
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