adamgoldberg
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What's the advice on building a FreeNAS on a 3U 12-bay DB-B0012ST, which seems to have a SuperMicro X7DBE, and a LSI SAS3081E-R?
I can't tell from photos, etc., what the backplane is but the SAS3081E-R has two mini-SAS connectors, so it'd support 8 drives directly (with fan-out cables), plus the several on the motherboard? I suspect it's not a SAS-expander backplane.
I'm a bit worried that the X7 is a bit old, should that bother me? With enough ECC RAM in here, and starting with one bank of 6x6GB RAIDZ2 with expansion to another 6 Z2 bank... seems like it'd give me enough expandability.
It makes me a little worried that I can't figure out which chassis this thing is based on, but it seems to be clearly a SuperMicro. The seller claims that it's similar to this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-...641961?hash=item1eaa3559a9:g:iZ8AAOSwo0JWO6Vk, but I haven't seen it yet. I'll be seeing it tomorrow.
Anything I should look for/watch out for of SuperMicro stuff of this vintage? This may originally be a "Pivot DB-B0012ST", whatever that is/was. Very little information about Pivot seems to be available (or nearly none).
You guys rock, thanks for your help.
I can't tell from photos, etc., what the backplane is but the SAS3081E-R has two mini-SAS connectors, so it'd support 8 drives directly (with fan-out cables), plus the several on the motherboard? I suspect it's not a SAS-expander backplane.
I'm a bit worried that the X7 is a bit old, should that bother me? With enough ECC RAM in here, and starting with one bank of 6x6GB RAIDZ2 with expansion to another 6 Z2 bank... seems like it'd give me enough expandability.
It makes me a little worried that I can't figure out which chassis this thing is based on, but it seems to be clearly a SuperMicro. The seller claims that it's similar to this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-...641961?hash=item1eaa3559a9:g:iZ8AAOSwo0JWO6Vk, but I haven't seen it yet. I'll be seeing it tomorrow.
Anything I should look for/watch out for of SuperMicro stuff of this vintage? This may originally be a "Pivot DB-B0012ST", whatever that is/was. Very little information about Pivot seems to be available (or nearly none).
You guys rock, thanks for your help.