DL360p Gen8 Attach 8 WD Red's??

[beantownmp]

I have a Proliant DL360p Gen8 I'd like to move Plex over to. I'm puzzled how to attach my existing 8 3.5" 3TB WD Red drives. Is there a way to get a dumb (no brains, just hold/mount drives) cage and run some cables out from the DL360 to it? I don't know a lot about physical servers and what the options are so any responses please assume you're talking to a noobie! 

 

Thanks!

[beantownmp]

Or would this be viable with an external jbod/sas enclosure?

 

Edited February 17, 2020 by beantownmp

[beantownmp]

Something like this: https://www.pc-pitstop.com/scsat84xt

[sota]

You could use an external cage and a controller with an external connector, but after you price all that out, might i suggest looking at replacing your DL360 G8 with a DL380e G8 instead?

 

eta: any of the P series controllers aren't really recommended, as they don't do pass through all that well, even ones that can be put into HBA mode.

Edited February 18, 2020 by sota

[beantownmp]

13 minutes ago, sota said:

You could use an external cage and a controller with an external connector, but after you price all that out, might i suggest looking at replacing your DL360 G8 with a DL380e G8 instead?

Hmm. Hadn't thought of that. Looking at your sig I see there are 380e's that take LFF drives which is what I'm after. Are the CPU & RAM interchangeable on these models? The 360p I have is pretty well spec'd dual e5 2690's and 196gb RAM.

[sota]

I believe the guts are.  I'd hit up ebay and see what you can find there. You might be pleasantly suprised.

[beantownmp]

I would basically just need this and the HDD Tray's and could just swap over from the DL 360 RAM & CPU?