August 26, 20196 yr Hi everyone, since everytime i ask or read something, i learn more but got more doubts, and seems that i have a nice Foxconn 1U but unusable with HDDs greater that 2TB... I am thinking on try to reuse the CPUs ans RAM on a thingy like SuperMicro CSE-829U X10DRU-i+ (2U) 12x 3.5" (LFF)... Would that fit out of the box? Seems it uses Xeon processos, that seems a positive, seems that uses PC4 RAM ECC memory and i have PC3 RAM ECC (would that be an issue?)... If i had to use the CPUs and RAM proposed would be a drawback in budget aspects, but if they work no probems at all, since im tryiying to "emulate" a 12 Drive Synology NAS with a 10Gb NIC... (and it's priced more that 4 times that...) I'll use a dual SFP+ card and the raid card proposed also. I put the link just to info purposes, if it not allowed please remove it: https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/superm-cse-829u-x10dru-i-2u-4-lff-hs-sas-hsp-configure-to-order One question i also have is would it take 8TB drives? They offer up to 6TB, but i assume that is for the "second hand" issues more that for its capacity. If i started there with 5x Drives (1 parity and 4 Storage) would be nice and seamless to keep adding drives up to 12? Also, if in some future i use a Netapp or similar 24x drive cage could i expand it with the 3 PCI Expansion slots (and HBA card o whatever i need there)? Thanks for the responses in advance, Carles Edited August 26, 20196 yr by crv74
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