Good evening
After a long hiatus, I am back on the forum. Actually, with my ZFS storage server running without problems for years I only needed to browse every now and then. However, I finally decided to take the leap again and build a proper server (still to be used at home) but with enough hard disks so that I have expansion flexibility.
I am interested in building a server using a 4U Supermicro chassis with space for 24 HDD. I want to use off the shelf SATA disks.
I was thinking of http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/846/SC846E26-R1200.cfm?parts=SHOW as basis. My goal is to have minimum extra wiring, I assume this is the chassis that has a backplane that kind of makes it "plug and play".
What else do I need? I am thinking of a cheap Supermicro motherboard that supports ECC memory, at least up to 32GB. Do I need still controller cards, or an HBA etc.?
I have built many high end PC's in my life, but never used server hardware, so this will be all new to me. Any help (or links) to a parts list / website of a similar build will be very helpful.
Thanks in advance!
After a long hiatus, I am back on the forum. Actually, with my ZFS storage server running without problems for years I only needed to browse every now and then. However, I finally decided to take the leap again and build a proper server (still to be used at home) but with enough hard disks so that I have expansion flexibility.
I am interested in building a server using a 4U Supermicro chassis with space for 24 HDD. I want to use off the shelf SATA disks.
I was thinking of http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/846/SC846E26-R1200.cfm?parts=SHOW as basis. My goal is to have minimum extra wiring, I assume this is the chassis that has a backplane that kind of makes it "plug and play".
What else do I need? I am thinking of a cheap Supermicro motherboard that supports ECC memory, at least up to 32GB. Do I need still controller cards, or an HBA etc.?
I have built many high end PC's in my life, but never used server hardware, so this will be all new to me. Any help (or links) to a parts list / website of a similar build will be very helpful.
Thanks in advance!