Dub Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 SAS-846A is direct attach, there's no expander, so there won't be a capacity limit. 1 Quote Link to comment
Dub Posted March 26, 2022 Author Share Posted March 26, 2022 Thank you @JorgeB! Quote Link to comment
bmdegraaf Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 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! Quote Link to comment
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