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Building DIY JBOD - Need a Good Chassis With Plenty of Hot-Swap Hard Drive Bays

Deslumo
By Deslumo
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I'm building a DIY JBOD and I need preferably a 4U chassis that can deliver lots of drive bays without breaking the bank, and also supports ATX motherboards. Any recommendations?

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JBOD with hot-swap bays is a recipie for disaster.

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Just now, svmlegacy said:

JBOD with hot-swap bays is a recipie for disaster.

How so? Al the premade ones have hotswap bays, and there are thousands of them in datacenters now.

 

How about the supermicro cases, like the this guy cse-846. CHeck the sas backplane, as this one has a 3gbit one ht I think is limited to 2tib drives

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-CSE-846E1-R900B-4U-Server-Chassis-2x900W-24-Bay-3Gbps-BPN-SAS-846EL1/283515791664?epid=97011204&hash=item4202dba930:g:lNEAAOSwJWddAsbl

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Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

How so? Al the premade ones have hotswap bays, and there are thousands of them in datacenters now.

 

How about the supermicro cases, like the this guy cse-846. CHeck the sas backplane, as this one has a 3gbit one ht I think is limited to 2tib drives

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-CSE-846E1-R900B-4U-Server-Chassis-2x900W-24-Bay-3Gbps-BPN-SAS-846EL1/283515791664?epid=97011204&hash=item4202dba930:g:lNEAAOSwJWddAsbl

Most pre-made storage servers are configured for RAID, not non-redundant JBOD.

Main: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, 16 GB 4400 MHz DDR4 Fedora 38 x86_64

Secondary: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Fedora 38 x86_64

Server: AMD Athlon PRO 3125GE, 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 ECC, TrueNAS Core 13.0-U5.1

Home Laptop: Intel Core i5-L16G7, 8 GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4x, Windows 11 Home 22H2 x86_64

Work Laptop: Intel Core i7-10510U, NVIDIA Quadro P520, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x86_64

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1 minute ago, svmlegacy said:

Most pre-made storage servers are configured for RAID, not non-redundant JBOD.

You can use rid on ll of these boxes, there just called jbod as all the drives are accessible in the os or to a raid card, instead of having a raid controller build in.

 

Even with jbod, hotswap is nice for adding drives to a array.

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