GPSpiderMKII
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- Dec 26, 2016
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Hey all,
I've been researching for a bit, but I think I might need to phone a friend on this one. I'm completely at a loss on how to connect my SuperMicro backplane to my motherboard. For background, the details on my build are below:
Chassis: SuperMicro SC846-R1K28B
Motherboard: SuperMicro X10DRi-T
Backplane: BPN-SAS3-846EL1 (link is to manual from SuperMicro's website)
I don't have any Host Bus Adapters and everything is internal to the same chassis. The backplane says that it is already connecting everything via a SAS extender, but I don't believe I need any hardware controllers since I think I recall FreeNAS preferring the HDDs in a JBOD setup so they can create the RAID pools.
I've attached a picture to what (I believe) is the SAS connector on the backplane below:
I have some SATA 3 drives in the chassis bay currently. They spin up because the board is powered, but since I'm missing the data cables they aren't recognized obviously. I'm wondering what cable do I need to connect the backplane to the motherboard and if I'll need some additional hardware to hook it up (such as a HBA?)? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I feel like the more I look at the cables/types the more I'm confusing myself. If you need any other information to help solve this, let me know. Thanks so much.
I've been researching for a bit, but I think I might need to phone a friend on this one. I'm completely at a loss on how to connect my SuperMicro backplane to my motherboard. For background, the details on my build are below:
Chassis: SuperMicro SC846-R1K28B
Motherboard: SuperMicro X10DRi-T
Backplane: BPN-SAS3-846EL1 (link is to manual from SuperMicro's website)
I don't have any Host Bus Adapters and everything is internal to the same chassis. The backplane says that it is already connecting everything via a SAS extender, but I don't believe I need any hardware controllers since I think I recall FreeNAS preferring the HDDs in a JBOD setup so they can create the RAID pools.
I've attached a picture to what (I believe) is the SAS connector on the backplane below:

I have some SATA 3 drives in the chassis bay currently. They spin up because the board is powered, but since I'm missing the data cables they aren't recognized obviously. I'm wondering what cable do I need to connect the backplane to the motherboard and if I'll need some additional hardware to hook it up (such as a HBA?)? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I feel like the more I look at the cables/types the more I'm confusing myself. If you need any other information to help solve this, let me know. Thanks so much.