thanks for your reply
i plan to buy the redundant power supply + a UPS brick when i rewire the cables to the new location for the server, switch and router which will be under my staircase
after reading your posts in this thread i decided to go and buy the H200 for the same reasons as yours and i already bought the SAS splitters cables
for my raid, setup i will change it once i am able to get all drives to into the server depending on what i would do with them
i also tried to use an NVME m.2 drive using a pcie adapter for the OS but it did not work, i am thinking of trying again later as i want to install unRaid. if it works then that will be great because i do not want to format the ssd with windows server, i might also buy a 2.5" ssd and install unRaid on it if the NVME drive does not work as i did not find any information on running NVME drives on our T310 server
one thing i forgot to ask you is
did you remove the backplane? if yes, then how did you get power to all drives since the server has only 2 sata power cables? and i read that it is not good to have a splitter for more than 2 drives on one sata power cable. (thats my main reason for asking for pictures :P)
thanks again