I snagged a 36 bay Supermicro 4U chassis off ebay with 36 3.5" bays, IT mode HBA, yada jyada.
Ran memtest and cpustress and a bunch of other things, seems to work just fine, waiting for drives to show up.
I have a stack of 128GB and 256GB Samsung SSD's from an aborted project sitting around.
Anyway, rather than burning up the 4-5 of the bays for a mirrored boot drive, and slog and l2arc drives, I was thinking of sticking them in the chassis by the mobo, there's plenty of room, fab up a little 3d printed bracket etc. SATA ports are right there, *but* I can't find power.
Read the manual, haven't completely pulled the chassis apart, but somebody has to have done this before, is there a way to get a couple molex up in there to power some SSD's. Or splitting something off one of the cables feeding the mobo, or somesuch.
If I have to use bays, I will but if I don't have to, I'd like to avoid it.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
Ran memtest and cpustress and a bunch of other things, seems to work just fine, waiting for drives to show up.
I have a stack of 128GB and 256GB Samsung SSD's from an aborted project sitting around.
Anyway, rather than burning up the 4-5 of the bays for a mirrored boot drive, and slog and l2arc drives, I was thinking of sticking them in the chassis by the mobo, there's plenty of room, fab up a little 3d printed bracket etc. SATA ports are right there, *but* I can't find power.
Read the manual, haven't completely pulled the chassis apart, but somebody has to have done this before, is there a way to get a couple molex up in there to power some SSD's. Or splitting something off one of the cables feeding the mobo, or somesuch.
If I have to use bays, I will but if I don't have to, I'd like to avoid it.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.