Norco 4224 Help

[mata7]

hi guys im planning on get the norco 4224 case and move my server of 8 drive to it, im planning to get 10 more hard drive of maybe 4TB wd red so that will be a total 18 Hard drive, my question is can someone please tell what exactly do i need to connect all this drive, my motherboard i believe only support 8 sata connection, and i will need to connect 18 or 24 hard drive

 

thanks in advanced

[TUMS]

You will need to add an HBA in order to get more ports. And Flash it to IT mode.

 

Here's on example:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-ServeRaid-M1015-46M0861-SAS-SATA-PCI-e-RAID-Controller-LSI-SAS9220-8i-/181842534823?hash=item2a56a8e1a7:g:JZ4AAOSwfZ1WZR4a

 

Dell H310 is also popular and possibly slightly cheaper if you look around on ebay....

[mata7]

sorry but how many hard drive can i connect to this cards, and is that the only way to do it?

[TUMS]

sorry but how many hard drive can i connect to this cards, and is that the only way to do it?

 

8 drives. If you need more than 8 you will need multiple cards or you could just go with a HBA + expander.

[mata7]

first thanks for all you help, let me ask you, will this work without me have to flash anything

 

2 of this cards are 16 Hard Drive

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101792

 

plus 8 sata from the board are 24 in total

[TUMS]

first thanks for all you help, let me ask you, will this work without me have to flash anything

 

2 of this cards are 16 Hard Drive

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101792

 

plus 8 sata from the board are 24 in total

 

Yes SAS2LP will work out of box with no flashing necessary.  I think most here though are choosing LSI based controllers these days with unraid. Flashing to IT mode is easy though really nothing to worry about.

[mata7]

Thanks for all you help, now i have a better understanding of what i have to do

[TUMS]

Thanks for all you help, now i have a better understanding of what i have to do

 

No problem.

[mata7]

Sorry man one more question, how do the hard drive get power? From the card or do i have conect each one to the power supply

 

Thanks

[TUMS]

Sorry man one more question, how do the hard drive get power? From the card or do i have conect each one to the power supply

 

Thanks

 

 

The Norco chassis has 6 backplanes with 6 molex connections to your power supply. I would only run 2 backplanes per lead so you don't overload anything.

[mata7]

great thanks man