Supermicro CSE-848 Unraid Compatibility?

[Toby864]

HI all,

 

I'm a new user to Unraid. I just wanted to run a system compatibility check past anyone who is willing to help. Here are the system specs:

 

Supermicro SuperChassis CSE-848 24-Bay Server

 

4 x Intel Xeon Eight-Core E5-4650 2.70GHz Processors

256GB DDR3 Ram

Motherboard X9QRI-F+ rev 1.02

Backplane Part Number: SAS846A

1 x Adaptec ASR-72405 RAID Controller With Battery

1 x Supermicro Dual Port 10Gb/s Ethernet Network Card AOC-STGN-i2S

2 x 1620W Power Supplies PWS-1K62P-1R

 

Can anyone confirm if all these parts are compatible?

 

Many thanks!

 

[JonathanM]

15 minutes ago, Toby864 said:

1 x Adaptec ASR-72405 RAID Controller With Battery

You will probably need to replace that with a non-RAID HBA like an LSI 9300.

 

Unraid doesn't play well with RAID controllers, it needs direct access to the drives.

[Toby864]

1 hour ago, jonathanm said:

You will probably need to replace that with a non-RAID HBA like an LSI 9300.

 

Unraid doesn't play well with RAID controllers, it needs direct access to the drives.

Thanks for replying Jonathanmn. In the meantime I found this thread:

 

Where a guy ended up upgrading the Adaptec Firmware and got it working in HBA mode (card bios setting). Hopefully that works.

 

If I upgrade to a LSI 9300-8I (which is 12Gbps) do you know if I need to change out the SAS846A Backplane too?