ONEILL Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 (edited) Hello all , just arrived here , this is a great comunity hope to learn a lot here ..... in that learning ... im thinking of upgrading from my synology nas ... to a supermicro ... have been seeing a few Supermicro SuperChassis CSE-848 X9QRI-F+ . to start ... but have a few questions and fears ..... would like some help just so i do not waste money since i dont have tons of it , My main goal , is have a NAS with capability to expande .. so far i have my 12 bay synology filled with 10tb drives with raid 6 ... i used it for mainly Plex server ( sharing with 5 or 6 family members ) and docker containers (radarr , sonarr , ombi ,netdata etx etx) , and maybe 1 or 2 vms ... i have a lot of 4tb drives arround .. and thats why i was checking the supermicro with 24 bays so i can put them in the supermicro , and expand the drives i have now .. even if its not the best to mix 10tb with 4tb .. it will give me time to have more money and starting switching the 4´s wit bigger drives .... i have seen a few builds with supermicro and unraid ... but my questions for you guys that already have a lot of supermicros ... is .... 1 -- can i use other motherbords in the supermicro case , like only buy the case and drive arrays and stick a motherboard and cpu i have ?? 2 -- if i can use a motherboard i have , can i connect all the 24 drives using the sata in the board and maybe like a expandable pci board to connect the rest of the satas , and will it work with unraid ?? 3 -- if i cannot use a custom board and have to use the supermicro board , or it is a lot better to use the supermicro board , can it run a nvidia p2000 for plex transcoding ?? sorry if this is a comon problem .. sorry for the trouble , hope you guys can give me a few pointers in with direction to go ..... Thanks and happy hollidays and new year Edited December 26, 2019 by ONEILL Quote Link to comment
Endy Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 3 hours ago, ONEILL said: 1 -- can i use other motherbords in the supermicro case , like only buy the case and drive arrays and stick a motherboard and cpu i have ?? Yes you can, that's what I did. 3 hours ago, ONEILL said: 2 -- if i can use a motherboard i have , can i connect all the 24 drives using the sata in the board and maybe like a expandable pci board to connect the rest of the satas , and will it work with unraid ?? You can use a SAS card and then connect that to an expander backplane. I used a Dell H310 flashed to IT mode and the backplane that came with my particular SM chassis is the BPN-SAS2-846EL1. Someone more knowledgeable than me can tell you what else works or doesn't. 3 hours ago, ONEILL said: 3 -- if i cannot use a custom board and have to use the supermicro board , or it is a lot better to use the supermicro board , can it run a nvidia p2000 for plex transcoding ?? If you went this route, I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work. Quote Link to comment
ONEILL Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 @Endythank you very much for you help ... going to do the same as you ... Quote Link to comment
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