wickedathletes Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 (edited) I am looking to move from a tower to a server. I have some failing ports on my motherboard and SATA pcie card and its time, my current tower holds 10 drives and as I have converted a lot to 8TB drives, I now have 4-5 4TB drives just sitting. Anyways, I have read you need reverse breakout cables for the Norco (4 SATA down to 1) then reverse back to 4. How is this not a major bandwidth bottleneck? And if it is, does it matter? What is the best way to get the most thru-put out of my 24 drives. Sorry if this sounds like a very basic question, my mind is not working today haha. Edited January 12, 2018 by wickedathletes Quote Link to comment
Tybio Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 (edited) The Norco I have uses the SFF8087 on the drive bay side, the backplane. If you have any of the modern HBAs they will use this as well. I use the default supermicro jbod cards that support 8 drives with 2 "ports", each card services two connections on the 4224 using cables like these (I think I got mine from mono https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133034 So it depends on your HBA, but you would never do a reverse to a forward, you would do SFF8087 on both sides, or a reverse/forward for whichever side had the single ports....or just SATA cables if both have single ports Edited January 12, 2018 by Tybio Quote Link to comment
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