October 27, 20205 yr so.. I am a canadian and have been searching for a solution for storage.. im finding a hard time getting anything decent for under the $1000 mark by the time its at my door.. I have a bunch of seagate 8tb drives and a bunch of smaller ones from various companies.. I need something to put all my drives in I have a HP DL380P Gen8 with dual E5-2697 V2 cpus and 256gb of DDR3 ram.. I use this box for running game servers for me and friends to play on and for media that i host at home and for friends.. I have been looking at buying the 12 bay LFF front face and swapping it out.. but its about $300 landed at my door.. plus time that I dont really have to swap it.. There is a server store that has these HB1235 boxes.. and can put one with trays cables and a controller card shipped to my door for about $625 all in.. they say it will do HBA passthrough so i can use the drives as i wish.. has anyone used these? is there anything I am missing? is there something better for this price range? I am tempted to pick up a 2nd box and run it in raid just to get some protection for my media library... smart? stupid idea? thoughts?
October 27, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, Newtious said: I have been looking at buying the 12 bay LFF front face What current front face config ? 2 hours ago, Newtious said: about $625 Cost reasonable. But those hardware are proprietary and not easy maintenance if fault.
October 29, 20205 yr Author Current face is the 8 sff drives and the cd rom drive On 10/26/2020 at 8:39 PM, Vr2Io said: What current front face config ? Cost reasonable. But those hardware are proprietary and not easy maintenance if fault.
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