riopgtmn Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 (edited) Hey everyone, I've used FreeNAS for years, and simply want to try something new. I have the following stuff from various clients / builds over the years I'd like to put to use. Chassis : https://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/745/SC745TQ-920B ** This case has the 743 SAS BACKPLANE W/AMI MG9072 ** Motherboard: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6000/SR56x0/H8DGi-F.cfm CPU: I have 2 of these, the board supports 6300 series opteron as well for future upgrades https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113036 RAM: Hynex DDR3 1600 ECC, 8x 4GB Modules for 32GB Total. 16 per CPU HDD: Seagate IronWolf 4TB x4 (Extra from a FreeNAS Build) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LOOJBQY/ref=crt_ewc_img_dp_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER SATA Controller: IBM ServerRaid M1115 As far as the OS, I have a few old SSDs to install it on Questions: Any problems using the SAS Backplane? Need to wire direct to each drive in the hot swap bays? GPU Passthrough on AMD 62/6300 series / This board? Ease of scaling to 8 drives from 4? Thoughts on adding a PCI Blower fan under the M1115 for extra cooling? I'm willing to swap these parts for others per suggestion, Any other thoughts / suggestions? Edited June 17, 2017 by riopgtmn Quote Link to comment
riopgtmn Posted June 18, 2017 Author Share Posted June 18, 2017 Any thoughts fellas? Quote Link to comment
Vr2Io Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 (edited) Haven't any experience on SAS backplane, but I think use with SATA HDD should be OK, just all LED / management may not work. For M1115 ( LSI 2008 chip ), may need to crossflash to LSI firmware. I use those 2008 / 2308 haven't extra FAN for cooling. Anyway I think you cound try to boot to unRAID, no need make any change on any harddisk, the GUI ( don't assign / mount any disk ) would let you know the status / result. Edited June 19, 2017 by Benson Quote Link to comment
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