Finally a project as reffrence. Newbie here, and i have two HP ML370 Gen5 sas cages, backplane and HP LSI P400 Smart Array SAS PCIe. I hope i can do the wiring and install it on consumer desktop. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for posting this video. I have enjoyed watching your video. With my morning coffee ☕️. I imagine that *(Gamers Nexus). Must have started this way too. Please keep up the great 👍 work.
I didnt have any on hand. If that is easier to do, by all means, please do. At the time of filming, this was the best thing i could do. As for proprietary equipment which has specialty connectors, if there is no adapter available, you just have to go the solder route.
Pro tip for text time: you can get power splitters or SATA to molex (and the reverse) adapters. Nice and cheap, plus if you somehow screw up, you did not cut up your PSU cables and you don't need crimping tools and supplies for that.
Ive been running two Intel cages for the last 3 years. $35 shipped for each cage with each cage supporting 6 drives and requiring just 2 molex conectors and 2 sata connectors (sas breakout cables).
Atx standard. Yellow wire is 12v, red wire is 5v and orange (if applicable) is 3.3. Just solder the red to the red, the black to the black and the yellow to the yellow.
you could have bought molex female+male kontakts and made it into an molex adapter. so u can use it on whatever power supply you want. But solder works aswell :)
Excellent question! It will be visible in proxmox and esxi because they have sas drivers integrated. So the disks will show up without needing to install extra things.
Im hopefully soon going to be getting two sas rack mount drive bay server things for free, it comes with a few raid cards so im hoping i might be able to make a system with a few sas drives as its storage drive and maybe keep one of the rack mounts as a network storage system.
SAS is the way to go for low budget high volume systems! 10K RPM and full data duplex are night and day when compared to half duplex sata drives. Thank you for your viewership!!
What are the dimensions and part number of that hard drive bay? I have a netfinity 5000 case I used for my new case and the old bay and backplane need to be updated to usable technology. The netfinity case is built like a tank and has lots of great fans and room. I really like it but it only came with 3 hard drive caddies and it actually supports five but I can't find 2 more caddies to fit it and I cant use the backplane anyway
Hey! Thank you for your comment! The part numbers are: Lenovo: FRU03X3703 + FRU03T8868 Hpe: 637218-001 + 466509-001 You can find the dimensions via their respective product information pages.
@@TechLabUnleashed though so. and although used sas drives are a good choice in terms of cost and reliability over sata ones (new sas are in an entirely different cost category), i still think new ssd drives are the way to go, if you are not in a heavy write enviroment. they are still going down on cost and up in capacity but the main advantage is power, noise and of course speed/latency.
Finally a project as reffrence. Newbie here, and i have two HP ML370 Gen5 sas cages, backplane and HP LSI P400 Smart Array SAS PCIe.
I hope i can do the wiring and install it on consumer desktop. Thanks for the video.
Whats the P/N? I had to dig through google images and found this: images.app.goo.gl/HoauXe9e2EmZ6UxQ7
Thanks, this is a very helpful guide for a beginner like me. Your on the fly commentary is very good and easy to understand.
Glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for posting this video. I have enjoyed watching your video. With my morning coffee ☕️. I imagine that *(Gamers Nexus). Must have started this way too. Please keep up the great 👍 work.
Thank you for your support! One step at a time, even gamers nexus had 500 subs at one point.
Thank you for your support!!
Instead of cutting a power supply cables is there a reason why you would not just crimp molex adapters onto the cables
I didnt have any on hand.
If that is easier to do, by all means, please do.
At the time of filming, this was the best thing i could do.
As for proprietary equipment which has specialty connectors, if there is no adapter available, you just have to go the solder route.
Finally someone turned my idea into a reality! Thank you!
Yeah. More techtubers need to realize the sas potential!
Lots and lots of space to claim!
10k, 12Tb for 200-220 cad.
@@TechLabUnleashed Can you also please make a tour of your server rack! I would love to see that...
I gotchu fam. Next vid will be racktour
Awesome, thanks.
Pro tip for text time: you can get power splitters or SATA to molex (and the reverse) adapters. Nice and cheap, plus if you somehow screw up, you did not cut up your PSU cables and you don't need crimping tools and supplies for that.
The lenovo sas cage is proprietary cables.
They dont come in sata/molex.
@@TechLabUnleashed they're talking about using the female molex as a connector for the cage instead of cutting the psu cables
Ive been running two Intel cages for the last 3 years. $35 shipped for each cage with each cage supporting 6 drives and requiring just 2 molex conectors and 2 sata connectors (sas breakout cables).
Managing 8 drives in a cage like that is just hundreds of times easier than managing the dives individually in sleighs
Could you go into detail about how you mapped the different voltage connectors on your soldering job?
Atx standard. Yellow wire is 12v, red wire is 5v and orange (if applicable) is 3.3.
Just solder the red to the red, the black to the black and the yellow to the yellow.
That green drink by the computer had me nervous the whole time.
I like to build suspense for the audience
you could have bought molex female+male kontakts and made it into an molex adapter. so u can use it on whatever power supply you want. But solder works aswell :)
Good suggestion.
this was done quick and dirty. I didn't have a lot of time to plan ahead 😅
Newbie here, can you set it up to be visible in Proxmox or ESXi or will this disk will only be visible in OS after HP Card managment is instaled ?
Excellent question!
It will be visible in proxmox and esxi because they have sas drivers integrated. So the disks will show up without needing to install extra things.
Im hopefully soon going to be getting two sas rack mount drive bay server things for free, it comes with a few raid cards so im hoping i might be able to make a system with a few sas drives as its storage drive and maybe keep one of the rack mounts as a network storage system.
SAS is the way to go for low budget high volume systems! 10K RPM and full data duplex are night and day when compared to half duplex sata drives.
Thank you for your viewership!!
@@TechLabUnleashed didn't end up getting them, someone offered the seller $60 and didn't get back to be to outbid him so someone got a steal of a deal
What are the dimensions and part number of that hard drive bay? I have a netfinity 5000 case I used for my new case and the old bay and backplane need to be updated to usable technology. The netfinity case is built like a tank and has lots of great fans and room. I really like it but it only came with 3 hard drive caddies and it actually supports five but I can't find 2 more caddies to fit it and I cant use the backplane anyway
Hey! Thank you for your comment!
The part numbers are:
Lenovo: FRU03X3703 + FRU03T8868
Hpe: 637218-001 + 466509-001
You can find the dimensions via their respective product information pages.
I am looking for such case but for 2.5 ssd ... :) Let say I want to put 8 SSD in Lian Li O11 Air Mini
Cage from dl380 g9, a 3d printer, spare parts and LOTS of patience.
Anything is possible 😏😏
Can you write witch controller card are using?
Thanks
Hello sasa.
in the video I am using SmartArray P440.
Since then I started using Smart Host Bus Adapter H240
i'm assuming the prices you talk about are for used sas drives, right?
Thats correct.
Im aiming to always tell about best bang for highest tier, but used or refurbed.
@@TechLabUnleashed though so. and although used sas drives are a good choice in terms of cost and reliability over sata ones (new sas are in an entirely different cost category), i still think new ssd drives are the way to go, if you are not in a heavy write enviroment. they are still going down on cost and up in capacity but the main advantage is power, noise and of course speed/latency.
👍super
Thank you
Is that ebola on the floor?
Its an unfinished garage floor.
Concrete. Lol