Pushing the HP Microserver Gen10 to its limits with a 14TB SAS drive upgrade

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Pretty fun little test here. As far as I can tell I am one of the first people to try to use such large drives in one of these. Not the first person to install a SAS controller though. Only bummer is these have limited slots so if you use the x8 for SAS that mean no 10Gb networking or other cards that require PCIe lanes. Also additional cooling for the SAS controller would be necessary for full time use. The difference in power draw between SATA and SAS surprised me. Basically looking around 3 to 5 watts more per drive. • Want to support what I do? Check out my eBay listings: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw ... • Video on how to take this Microserver apart: • Taking apart and reassembling an HP E... • Video on a low power NAS build I did with the HP Elitedesk 800 G3: • How My Custom HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFF... • I guess Serve the Home reviewed this with 10TB drives. I didn't see the review till someone pointed it out elsewhere. https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-prol... • Specs of this build: • AMD Opteron X3421 dual core CPU with 4 threads • 32GB DDR4 (Two 16GB sticks) • 4x 3.5 drive bays • 1x SATA port for optical drive or 2.5 SSD • SATA config had a 32GB boot drive and four 4TB SATA drives • SAS Config had a 240GB boot drive, a crossflashed Dell Perc H310, and four 14TB drives • 0:00 Intro • 2:00 Doing the upgrades to gain SAS support • 4:36 First power on • 6:06 Booted into clean install of TrueNAS Scale • 7:20 Power draw file transfer test SATA vs SAS • 8:56 Temps and final thoughts

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