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Hardware CASE: Norco RPC-4220 PSU: Rosewill RBR1000-M 1000W MB: SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCL+-F CPU: Intel Celeron G540 HS: Supermicro SNK-P0046P RAM: 4x Kingston ValueRAM 4GB RAID CARD 1: M1015 flashed to 9211-8i in IT mode RAID CARD 2: M5015 SAS Expander: HP SAS Expander Boot: WD Scorpio Black 750GB HDD 1: 8x 3TB WD Red (WD30EFRX) HDD 2: 7x 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD 3: 1x 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD 4: 4x 300GB Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 (ST3300657SS) HDD 5: 2x 240GB Kingston SSDNow V300 (SV300S37A) Software and Configuration: This server is running W2012 R2. It have the following arrays: Raid5 8*3TB Red for media and low speed iSCSI target. Will be migrated to RAID 6 once I receive the M5015 Advanced Features Key. Raid5 7*2TB important files backup and other stuff. It will be removed when I increase the storage on the 8*3TB array. (Plugged on the M1015 in Storage Spaces) Raid5 4*300GB for high speed iSCSI target with 6GB RAM caching (PrimoCache) Raid0 2*240GB SSD for high speed iSCSI test target. (Plugged on the M1015) The last 1TB used for VM backups (Plugged on the M1015) Usage: I use the storage for movies and series, photos, personal files, emulators and roms. For the Cheetah and SSD arrays, it's used for iSCSI target for VM. I have around 5 VM per target currently. Backup: The important stuff is backed to the 1TB drive then backed to tape one a week and an archive tape is send to my stepfather house one a month. The tape is located in my ESXi server and managed by Veeam. Additional info: It use around 400watts when idle. The 1000W PSU may seems overkill but I had many problem when using 600W one.

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I want to upgrade my current storage solution for a larger one. I've already got my hand on a HP SAS Expander card and a LSI 9260-8i and they should arrive soon! The only thing I need is SAS cable between the LSI and HP card (already have SAS Breakout from an old 9211-8i). I have read a few things on SGPIO and have a few questions: Do I need a SGPIO cable between the LSI and HP card? If not, do having a SGPIO cable can do any harm? I'm planning to get a Norco 4220 case, do I need SGPIO cable between the HP card and the case backplane? Thank