I was thinking to build cheap SAN storage for home lab VMware ESXi share storage. My target to build is compact and budget is less than 200 SGD. When I was digging information from Google and nothing satisfied me. So I have decided to use my old HP dc7900 SFF desktop as SAN storage. That PC was bought around $80 SGD during auction from my company last 2 years ago. As you know SFF can only put maximum 2 x 3.5" HDD internally. I have idea to utilize CDRom drive space and replace with those 2.5" 4 bay hot swap HDD Cage. I found Monoprice 10058 5.25" to 4x2.5" SAS/SATA 6Gb/s hot-swap Aluminum HDD Cage w/key from eBay and purchased with 35 USD. This HDD Cage support up to 12mm 2.5" HDD so it can install SAS HDD as well. Initially I have intended to purchased 6 bay or 8 pay but they only support 9mm and 7mm thin HDD. RAID card My purose is to use as SAN storage. So I was also looking for cheap RAID card. After searching a few information, most of LSI R...
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