BlinkerFluid

I and most others have used the mellanox connect x3. You can find dual sfp+ versions on ebay cheap. Why would you want to spend double or triple for one that will work the same? If you want to see if it supports, check the linux kernel version of unraid and see if that chipset has drivers in linux

why not just run external sas to a sas expander in the apple xraid chassis from your current server. You could retain your current power supply and just use it as a storage enclosure. Attached a picture of how that can work

If you are not transcoding then either one. I personally like ecc ram for unraid

@olehj Yay that worked! I now see all 30+ drives after spinning them up and scanning. Now to reload the backup I made and sort them to their slots. Thank you for all your hard work! Enjoy some beer

Yep everything is up to date. I backed up then deleted the database and it still shows the same drives from scan when I tried it checked with smartctl -all /dev/* and they all have different serial numbers, vendors, product, revision and logical unit ids I've attached 4 drives i checked with smart with all info (not worried since they are old). Two 10TB HGST sas drives and my two main 3.84TB ssd sas drives unraid smart data 6.6.22.txt

start a new topic and don't jump on someone elses please. No for hardware raid and ZFS isn't natively supported yet. (should be for 6.11). Normal method would be to setup a xfs array with 1 or 2 parity drives and let unraid manage it

If you can compile the driver under linux, Unraid would support it I think. Out of the box Unraid does not support fibrechannel. I think just TrueNas enterprise is the only thing I have used that has it. You are talking about very specific enterprise use gear that not many have access to Also you'd need to script to have the driver load up on every boot

Do i need to do a reboot? I ran a force scan and it didn't find any new drives

you can look up the server information/motherboard and see the form factor on the supermicro website to make sure

should probably start a new hardware topic on m2 to sata boards and ask

lsscsi -u -b output and lsscsi -g output attached along with smartctl output that was sent to txt files. SG29 is a sata drive that is working, SG30 is a SAS drive that is not smartctl-sg29.txt smartctl-sg30.txt

yeah expander cards work just like a dumb network switch. Just input one sas cable in and then sas cable out to the rest from expander card. If you are not using any SAS drives you could use two cables in and one would work as a failover (with sas drives it tries to do dual mode sas which unraid doesn't support and you end up with drives listed twice with different addresses)

None of my Sas drives show up. Attached lsscci -ug output. I know you havn't updated the plugin yet but just posting now that 6.10 is stable lsscsi ug output 5.21.22.txt

This listing looks like the same card as the tri-mode based on comparing specs but i guess it could be a knockoff. - https://www.ebay.com/itm/284672380344?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=JnVW1VgjTbK&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Another possible route to go would be to just use a 12g sas expander card and a much cheaper 12g sas card like a 9400-8i. I'm running single sas cable 12g into a backplane and still max out drive speeds just fine with tons of drives including 4 ssd sas and 3 sata sas

yes. There is no way to interface with your drives without a sas card. The expander doesn't provide anything other than making more sas ports for you to connect stuff up with The expander card can just be put in whatever slot it fits in. The smaller the better as it literally is only getting power from the pcie slot. You don't need to use the external port for it at all. Just connect your sas card into whatever expander port is easiest. Sounds like you want to go sas internal 8087 to sas internal 8087