January 3, 20179 yr Hello everyone, Looking for some experienced system builders to weigh in here. I'm currently running a pretty hefty Unraid server with the following specs: Dell R710 chassis Dual Xeon X5690 192GB RAM 6 X Seagate 8TB ST8000AS0002 drives 2 X Samsung 256GB 850 EVO SSDs for cache drives 2 X IBM M1015 SAS Cards flashed to LSI 9220-8i in IT mode I run this primarily as a Plex server, but run some other general purpose compute as well (all from docker containers). This works phenomenally well and meets my needs 100% EXCEPT I'm running out of space and I don't have any more open drive bays. I've looked into a variety of ways to grow the storage footprint outside of the box without having to replace the whole machine, and none seem like a slam dunk. I've looked at some of the Dell branded Powervault DAS devices on the used market and those seem to have their own issues and I would need to replace my LSI cards to give me an external SAS port. Space cooling and power is not an issue. Any suggestions here? Thank you!
January 3, 20179 yr I don't really think you have a choice but to go with an external enclosure and a SAS expander or replace your 8TB drives with 10TB ones, but that hardly seems worth it.
January 3, 20179 yr I've looked into a variety of ways to grow the storage footprint outside of the box without having to replace the whole machine, and none seem like a slam dunk. I've looked at some of the Dell branded Powervault DAS devices on the used market and those seem to have their own issues and I would need to replace my LSI cards to give me an external SAS port. Space cooling and power is not an issue. i think there is no need to replace LSI cards - just place some 5x3 or 4x3 enclosure near your server and choose appropriate SAS cable with sufficient length from your existing LSI card to enclosure..
January 3, 20179 yr Author Any recommendations on external enclosures that folks have found work well? Thanks!
January 4, 20179 yr Any recommendations on external enclosures that folks have found work well? Thanks! see here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12405.0 , try read from the end
January 5, 20179 yr Author Any recommendations on external enclosures that folks have found work well? Thanks! see here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12405.0 , try read from the end Those are all internal drive cages (which won't work in my server), not external enclosures. Any pointers on the latter?
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