Hello,
My first post here and I would like to start by saying thank you for building such a tremendous resource.
The purpose of the build is for home use. Storage of movies, music, pictures, documents. Streaming of movies via Plex for 3 users, will probably never see more than 2 active streams.
After doing some research here, I decided to purchase a Supermicro 847 from ebay. I wanted to start with a quality case and have plenty of room for growth.
Case: Supermicro CSE-847 ABC-03
Backplanes: 1x BPN-SAS2-846EL, 1x BPN-SAS2-826EL
MB: Supermicro X8DTE-F
CPU: 2x Intel E5640
RAM: 48GB 12x Mushkin PC3-8500
Drives: 8x WD Red 6TB (z2), 1x WD Green 120GB SSD (boot)
Extra NIC: Supermicro AOC-STN-I2S
I have already error/stress tested the CPU and memory, thankfully everything looks healthy. I believe my next step is to get a HBA with SAS so I can connect the backplanes to the motherboard and begin testing the drives. This is my first experience with SAS and backplanes so I would like to verify the necessary hardware.
Will the LSI SAS9211-8I be a good selection for the HBA? Will I need two SFF-8087 cables to connect each of the backplanes?
Any other general recommendations are welcomed.
Thanks in advance!
My first post here and I would like to start by saying thank you for building such a tremendous resource.
The purpose of the build is for home use. Storage of movies, music, pictures, documents. Streaming of movies via Plex for 3 users, will probably never see more than 2 active streams.
After doing some research here, I decided to purchase a Supermicro 847 from ebay. I wanted to start with a quality case and have plenty of room for growth.
Case: Supermicro CSE-847 ABC-03
Backplanes: 1x BPN-SAS2-846EL, 1x BPN-SAS2-826EL
MB: Supermicro X8DTE-F
CPU: 2x Intel E5640
RAM: 48GB 12x Mushkin PC3-8500
Drives: 8x WD Red 6TB (z2), 1x WD Green 120GB SSD (boot)
Extra NIC: Supermicro AOC-STN-I2S
I have already error/stress tested the CPU and memory, thankfully everything looks healthy. I believe my next step is to get a HBA with SAS so I can connect the backplanes to the motherboard and begin testing the drives. This is my first experience with SAS and backplanes so I would like to verify the necessary hardware.
Will the LSI SAS9211-8I be a good selection for the HBA? Will I need two SFF-8087 cables to connect each of the backplanes?
Any other general recommendations are welcomed.
Thanks in advance!