I can get my hands on 4 SAS drives, can anyone tell me what I need to connect them to this controller?
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Follow-up: On Amazon, search for "B004N4O7XA" (ASIN number). Will bring up a 3-ware cable that appears to be compatible. Looks like the price is a pretty big savings from list. Nice thing about the Highpoint cable is it looked like it had (2) Molex power connectors to cover power for the (4) drive connectors, whereas this has (4) Molex -- 1 per drive. But in the end, certainly not a problem. Just means you have to make a couple more power connections.
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You'd need to have a cable that has SAS at both ends as well as a split. The one that I used was SAS on the card end and SATA (x 4 connectors) on the hard drive end. There are only two SAS ports on the RAID card, so you would need to ensure that the cable could handle the split.
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4 rca connectors on this controller. 2 for master output and other two for recording or another usefull kind
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Anthoney, I need a bit more information, as to what you have done already and the results you have gottern so far and the specific things that are not working with this unit, then prehaps I can tell you what you want to know, first of all make sure that the drives are being recognized, are you trying to use this as a stand alone or with you computer??
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Kinda funny that no one notices the black jumper on the adapter (below the power connector) that says "IN Master, OUT Slave", meaning "ON Master, Off Slave". Just move the jumper inboard onto 1 pin for Slave, in case you later want to switch it back to Master. SATA optical drives themselves don't seem to have or need a jumper.
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The raid controller is embedded into the enclosure. Just connect the cabinet to the pc or Mac via usb 2 or 3, or esata. Configuration of the raid set is via a set of dip switches on the back of the unit.
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Yes, you can just use it as a regular SATA controller, you don't have to set up RAID if you don't want to. That's how I use it.
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I used it with WHS 2011 (now using 2012 Server) successfully by using software driven JBOD, specifically Stablebit. The hard drives on the controller are available just like, and in addition to, those connected to the motherboard SATA connections. I have also used this in a hardware driven RAID 5 array as a separate backup to Highpoint 2720 controller using software JBOD. Too complicated, but it did work.
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You can replace the drive with any size SATA or SAS drive, however if you are using RAID you should have all drives in the astray match capacity. SAS and SATA cannot exist in the same array but can be set up in dire separate arrays on the same controller.
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the drive in the heatsink apears to be an SAS (SCSI Attached Serial), however, as it is mentioned, the drive does run hot, so I would not use it without the heatsink, as the drive WILL overheat, causing catastrophic failure..
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This board requires four 4-pin ATA plugs. The board comes with the four 4-pin ATA plugs. Make sure your have a power supply that will accommodate these plugs. I had to buy adaptors (about $2 each) to plug into the SATA plugs.
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Yes 4Tb drives work. The backplanes Rosewill uses don't use a separate controller instead they just pass the SATA connection straight through so any drive size will work.
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The best thing that you can do is contact intel support. I like using the Chat, they are quick to respond and will help you for free and have always helpped me. The short answer to your question is probably. If it is an Intel backplane, usually there are four to six drives per SAS cable. You connect your RAID card to the expander card with SAS cables and then use SAS cables to connect the expander to the backplane. The connection schema is not intuitive, hence you will need to speak with an Intel tech support. Usually the documentation is very poor or even incorrect. The Intel support will give you a download link for good diagrams or will simply tell you which ports connect where.
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You'll need as many data and power cables as you have drives. Depending on your power supply, you may have to buy a few splitters.
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Although I haven't done it with this particular array (I'm using it in RAID5), by the regular principals, it doesn't look good. If they were individual drives, absolutely not. If they are removed from another JBOD, they would have to be in the same order, and would depend on having the same firmware. Basically... I wouldn't try it with any array. What you're looking for is probably something with a port multiplier in it so that each drive is handled individually by your OS. Then you'd need a port-multiplier compatible eSATA card (or usb if you like slow drives).
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May I suggest I don't know what u need but go to their website deepdiscount servers.com u can get some dif configs on this machine
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Hey Jim be sure to pick up a couple 4 pin molex to sata adapters. You will need them to make extra sata conecters.
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I suggest you use one of the HDD slots becuase there are a lot, and you connect SDDs and all other parts to the mobo. Hope that helps!