Used Chenbro 48bay complete system on eBay

[Nicktdot]

Saw this earlier in the week and ordered one to see.

 

My existing system has a higher end CPU so I swapped out the board and upgraded to it from a Norco RPC4224 , but this is still a pretty good deal for a 48 drive full system..

 

It's a Chenbro NR40700 , which has 2 integrated 24 bay expanders in the drive backplane.

 

http://www.chenbro.com/en-global/products/RackmountChassis/4U_Chassis/NR40700

 

The systems are complete with LSI-9211-8i, Xeon X3450 and 32GB RAM .

 

So for a full system, the asking price is pretty good. 

 

See link below:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chenbro-48-Bay-Top-Loader-4U-Chassis-w-Rail-Kit-Drive-Brackets-COMPLETE-SYSTEM-/252334824504

 

Cheers

[nightanole]

I dont even want to know how much that thing might weigh fully loaded...

[switchman]

I bet it also sounds like a jet airplane taking off.

[Nicktdot]

I dont even want to know how much that thing might weigh fully loaded...

 

Well, if it helps, it was 95lbs empty

 

 

[Nicktdot]

I bet it also sounds like a jet airplane taking off.

 

Sounds more like a Tu-95 !

 

I swapped out the fans with Noctua. so now it's super quiet.

 

 

[CyberSkulls]

Just cause I'm curious, how much power does that thing draw at idle with no disks or how much wattage with disks and tell me how many disks are included in that figure?

 

I've always been fascinated by the 36 bay variant of the backblaze pods. When unRAID reaches that level of data disks for the pro license I may have to build a couple of the 36 bay

 

 

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[BRiT]

I've always been fascinated by the 36 bay variant of the backblaze pods. When unRAID reaches that level of data disks for the pro license I may have to build a couple of the 36 bay

 

unRaid is already there in the 6.2 beta series. Pro key supports max 30 array devices, unlimited attached devices

[CyberSkulls]

Sorry, I was referring to 36 array devices. I'm sure the vibration would kill my drives in a backblaze inspired pod but it would just be fun to build one.

 

 

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[BRiT]

Sorry, I was referring to 36 array devices. I'm sure the vibration would kill my drives in a backblaze inspired pod but it would just be fun to build one.

 

Well I think you can have 24 devices in the cache pool along with 30 data drives.

[Bigdady92]

how loud are the fans? Those hot swap fans are mini hurricanes and obnoxious

[tmargalit]

What fan did you use for the power supplies?

 

[Lev]

I like this case a lot, thinking about buying it but need help with one question I can't seem to find the answer to in all the documentation.

 

There appear to be two backplanes 'expanders' in it, each supports 24 drives. Each backplane has 3 sas connectors on it.

 

I'm confused as to the three sas connectors on the backplane, does each connector only go to 8 of the 24 disks? Or is it something else? Many of the photos I found online only show one sas cable going into each backplane, which makes me think it operates as a 24 port expander, but then that doesn't make any sense cause why have 3 sas connectors on the backplane, it would only be one or two (dual linking).

 

Does anyone how owns this case know how it works and can get me sorted. Trying to figure this out so I know what performance to expect. Cheers!

 

[JorgeB]

I like this case a lot, thinking about buying it but need help with one question I can't seem to find the answer to in all the documentation.

 

There appear to be two backplanes 'expanders' in it, each supports 24 drives. Each backplane has 3 sas connectors on it.

 

I'm confused as to the three sas connectors on the backplane, does each connector only go to 8 of the 24 disks? Or is it something else? Many of the photos I found online only show one sas cable going into each backplane, which makes me think it operates as a 24 port expander, but then that doesn't make any sense cause why have 3 sas connectors on the backplane, it would only be one or two (dual linking).

 

Does anyone how owns this case know how it works and can get me sorted. Trying to figure this out so I know what performance to expect. Cheers!

 

I don't know that backplane but usually the 3rd connector is for daisy chaining another chassis.