questions regarding a storage server

[vladNMP]

hello.

i was looking for storage ideas for mining Chia and i got over this:

https://www.zones.com/site/product/index.html?id=105580483 Western Digital SE4U60-60, 600TB

and i have a few questions: 

is it a pc after all? i see it was power supplies included but no details about processor or anything.

is it just hdds and psus? i can see it has IO can i add a motherboard to it? which ones?

what about adding ssds to it?

there is so few information about it

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, vladNMP said:

is it a pc after all? i see it was power supplies included but no details about processor or anything.

not a pc, its a sas jbod.

 

5 minutes ago, vladNMP said:

is it just hdds and psus? i can see it has IO can i add a motherboard to it? which ones?

you need a sas controller to use it in a pc

 

6 minutes ago, vladNMP said:

what about adding ssds to it?

sure, any sas/sata drive will work, but for chia, id get a enterprise pcie ssd for making plots

 

 

[vladNMP]

6 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

not a pc, its a sas jbod.

 

you need a sas controller to use it in a pc

 

sure, any sas/sata drive will work, but for chia, id get a enterprise pcie ssd for making plots

 

 

can you explain a bit what is a sas controller ?

basically i want to move the plots from a PC with high end processor, ram and ssd.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 hours ago, vladNMP said:

can you explain a bit what is a sas controller ?

basically i want to move the plots from a PC with high end processor, ram and ssd.

Sas controller turns pcie to sas so you cana connect more drives. This box just lets you store lots of drives.

 

Here is a example of a controller you would want.

 

Just saying, these boxes are very loud, heavy and power hungry.

[Blue4130]

10 hours ago, vladNMP said:

can you explain a bit what is a sas controller ?

basically i want to move the plots from a PC with high end processor, ram and ssd.

You will still need to pair this with a computer to work. 

[vladNMP]

On 5/17/2021 at 6:25 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Sas controller turns pcie to sas so you cana connect more drives. This box just lets you store lots of drives.

 

Here is a example of a controller you would want.

 

Just saying, these boxes are very loud, heavy and power hungry.

you didnt share the example, please? 

is it difficult to connect to a PC?

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 hours ago, vladNMP said:

you didnt share the example, please? 

is it difficult to connect to a PC?

OH yeae , here you go https://www.ebay.com/itm/203242206938?epid=19013148615&hash=item2f522df6da:g:WzYAAOSwAS5f9-FM

 

There pretty easy to use, but id really do some more research here beforing spening like 28k on this.

[vladNMP]

On 5/19/2021 at 5:45 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

OH yeae , here you go https://www.ebay.com/itm/203242206938?epid=19013148615&hash=item2f522df6da:g:WzYAAOSwAS5f9-FM

 

There pretty easy to use, but id really do some more research here beforing spening like 28k 

sooo let.s see if i get this right: 

basically i buy a box full of 60 HDDs, and i must plug in somehow 60 SATA cables in a pc. these SAS controllers are actually some adapters to sacrifice x8 pcie slots or whatever to plug in those HDDs ??

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, vladNMP said:

sooo let.s see if i get this right: 

basically i buy a box full of 60 HDDs, and i must plug in somehow 60 SATA cables in a pc. these SAS controllers are actually some adapters to sacrifice x8 pcie slots or whatever to plug in those HDDs ??

Well that box has a sas expander included, so it splits the 4/8 sas ports from that card into the 60 ports needed for the drives.

 

But really do some more research here, lots of weird edge cases.