Mogo Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 Just curious if someone can recommend a good HBA card to use with this case? The backplane on the Silverstone RM43-320-RS has 5 ports that I assume connect to 5 ports on an HBA card? When I was researching, I heard about only using 1 cable or (2 cables) for more bandwidth to connect all 20 hard drives but I don't know how to do that or how that would be implemented. Assuming the above is resolved, how would I then connect a DAS to the Silverstone RM43-320-RS? Do I need a second card that has 2 external ports or is there 1 card that would do everything? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 45 minutes ago, Mogo said: I heard about only using 1 cable or (2 cables) for more bandwidth to connect all 20 hard drives That will only work if the backplane has a SAS expander, and based on this it doesn't look like it: 46 minutes ago, Mogo said: The backplane on the Silverstone RM43-320-RS has 5 ports So you need one HBA plus an expander or multiple HBAs Quote Link to comment
Mogo Posted September 27, 2023 Author Share Posted September 27, 2023 (edited) Thanks, I think I see what you mean. Just two more question then. Assuming there is an hba card and an expander card (to connect to a das) installed on the motherboard, do you need to connect the expander to the hba? If so and let's say i had the 5 cables from the case and only 2 ports on an hba, can i connect the other 3 cables to the expander? Edited September 27, 2023 by Mogo Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 21 minutes ago, Mogo said: do you need to connect the expander to the hba? Yes, HBA -> expander using 1 or 2 cables then expander -> backplane using 5 cables Quote Link to comment
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