danb35
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All the bays in my 12-bay server are full, and expanding the pool disk-by-disk seems so wasteful, what with throwing out good disks. This led to some browsing on eBay, which found this server. Overkill probably doesn't even begin to describe it (and I might need to be talked out of buying a pair of E5-2670s to drop in there), but it certainly ought to have enough drive bays, RAM, and CPU to meet my needs for the foreseeable future.
The server comes with a SuperMicro "AOC-S2208L-H8iR w/ L3-25419-05" RAID controller, which looks like it uses a LSI 2208 chip. From what I've been able to find so far, (1) this card/chip won't do IT mode, and (2) even if it did, I'd be better off selling it and replacing it with a 9211-8i. It appears this is a legacy product, as I don't see a current product page on supermicro.com for it, so I'm not really sure what the L3-25419-05 is--I'd guess either the BBU or supercap that are mentioned here.
I'm wondering about the motherboard. It's a X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, which has two SFF-8087 SAS ports on board, driven by a SAS2308 controller. With those there, do I even need to put in the 9211? Seems I should be able to just run one SAS cable to the front backplane, and a second one to the back.
The server comes with a SuperMicro "AOC-S2208L-H8iR w/ L3-25419-05" RAID controller, which looks like it uses a LSI 2208 chip. From what I've been able to find so far, (1) this card/chip won't do IT mode, and (2) even if it did, I'd be better off selling it and replacing it with a 9211-8i. It appears this is a legacy product, as I don't see a current product page on supermicro.com for it, so I'm not really sure what the L3-25419-05 is--I'd guess either the BBU or supercap that are mentioned here.
I'm wondering about the motherboard. It's a X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, which has two SFF-8087 SAS ports on board, driven by a SAS2308 controller. With those there, do I even need to put in the 9211? Seems I should be able to just run one SAS cable to the front backplane, and a second one to the back.