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That's a lot more reasonable, even with shipping.  I'll do a bit of research, but at least if I get the rear part, it allows me to use the front slots for SSDs and SFF disks as well.  I assume I'll need a disk controller card for the rear cage assembly as well.

 

This is a really helpful forum.  Thanks so much.

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1 hour ago, sota said:

10TB are LFF.  I know of no one making a 10TB SFF.

When I bought the server it came with 14 sleds, as it already had the rear expansion bays installed.

I'm not seeing a rear expansion bay, but maybe I missed it.  Unfortunately mine came with the 8 slot front  SFF and the optical drive bay.  It looks like I can source the LFF slots, but it's pretty expensive ($300 as the lowest I've seen in Europe), but it's probably a better long-term solution than using my 8 slots.  Thanks for the help.

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11 hours ago, sota said:

I have WD white label 10TB drives connected to mine.  They worked on the P420i controller as well, in JBOD mode, but there's drive ID issues with some manufacturers (namely, Samsung, in my experience.)

 

@Newtious it's 12 LFF up or 25 SFF front, and 2 LFF or 2 SFF in the back (optional.)

Thanks for the assist.  Did you get the 10TB SFFs for the front and bought extra drive caddies?  I prefer WD anyway, so I will have a look.  I assume you updated the BIOS to see the drive?

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18 hours ago, Newtious said:

oh..  find the manual...  its got the part numbers for the options these things came with

Thanks a lot for the help.  I'll definitely see if I can get the parts locally.  How is performance for you?  I assume it will be pretty good, but I haven't set it up for unRAID yet, so I can't tell.  The manual is great help for everything including part numbers. 

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On 7/26/2019 at 7:43 PM, rmp5s said:

I figured it out.  Here's what I did.

 

Make a bootable Linux Mint USB.  https://linuxmint.com/download.php

 

Boot it up and go download hpssacli-2.10-14.0_amd64.deb from here.  https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp/pool/non-free/

 

 

Install it and navigate to /opt/hp/hpssacli/bld and run this command:

controller slot=0 modify hbamode=on

 

You're done.  This is exactly what I did and it worked for me.  All my drives show up now except my cache SSD, even though it was before, but I don't know if this is related or not.  I don't think it is.

As you guys seem quite familiar with the model, I have a few questions to ask if you're willing to humor me.  I am based in Europe and I have a DL380p Gen 8 that I am considering using as my new unRAID server, but I have a few questions.  Firstly, mine (secondhand) comes with a few 600 GB drives, but I'd like to buy a few more and replace the 600s with higher capacity.  What is the largest capacity drives could I use to replace the drives in the trays and does it have to be HP SAS drives, as I don't fancy paying for HP drives for personal use.  Second question: I have the model that has 8 trays on the right and a DVD drive on the left.  How do I fit more drives or, if possible, how do I change the front panel to allow for more drives (I believe the limit is 25)?  Lastly, is it worth it, or should I just buy a full tower with lots of space for drives and use that instead?

 

I  have been using unRAID on a HP mini tower for a few years now, but the speed and capacity is starting to be a little limiting.

 

Thanks for everyone's time.