SAS846A + LSI 9750-24i4e

[Dub]

I was able to recently snag an old CSE-846 that has an existing SAS846A backplane, and was also able to nab an LSI 9750-24i4e at the same time. I understand the original SAS846 (non A) wasn't able to support > 2TB drives but I was told the A variant should be fine.

 

I won't have the drives for a little bit - but after trying to find some info on the card and the backplane I'm curious if I'm going to have issues with either of those and if I should be looking at other options before I start migrating to the new hardware.

 

 

[JorgeB]

SAS-846A is direct attach, there's no expander, so there won't be a capacity limit.

[Dub]

Thank you @JorgeB!

[bmdegraaf]

I can attest, running SCM846 with BPN-SAS-846A backplane myself. No restrictions whatsoever. I did end up gutting out the rest of chassis to run power efficient, e.g. moving to ATX power supply (Corsair RM550x 2021)… and swapping out the supermicro fans for a fan wall based on Noctua. System is dead silent!