This is probably a stupid question been looking around a while now couldn't find anything.
So if i get this chassis
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/?chs=216
and only want to put hard drives in it and connect it to a
ARC-1680x
http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcietosas1680series.htm
That has 2 external SFF-8088 ports, what am i missing in between the 2? How do i get the 24 drives to hook up to those 2 ports can i get nice pci brackets where the 4 sas/sata cables could plug into and get a sff 8088 port or whatever the male/female equiv is. Or do i need a sas expander. Anybody have a faq or doc on this, basically want to hook the 24 drives up to another server and card.
Was thinking of getting 2 of those chassis or more and hooking them up to a server that can fit up to 6 of the areca cards, if there's a better solution or better parts just let me know, first time designing something externally. Do the chassis with the harddrives need a mobo and cpu or can they just be bare hard drives?
So if i get this chassis
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/?chs=216
and only want to put hard drives in it and connect it to a
ARC-1680x
http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcietosas1680series.htm
That has 2 external SFF-8088 ports, what am i missing in between the 2? How do i get the 24 drives to hook up to those 2 ports can i get nice pci brackets where the 4 sas/sata cables could plug into and get a sff 8088 port or whatever the male/female equiv is. Or do i need a sas expander. Anybody have a faq or doc on this, basically want to hook the 24 drives up to another server and card.
Was thinking of getting 2 of those chassis or more and hooking them up to a server that can fit up to 6 of the areca cards, if there's a better solution or better parts just let me know, first time designing something externally. Do the chassis with the harddrives need a mobo and cpu or can they just be bare hard drives?