Bulk Purchase ?
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So look for SAS2 to break the 2TB barrier.
Is one of the 24 drives the OS drive or do you have an extra OS drive as well?
External CD to load an OS?
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@rds Yep SAS2 controller AND backplane to break the 2TB barrier. For the OS I use a 500GB SSD drive connected to one of the systems SATA3 controllers. And specify a large swap file on the SSD.
OS Installed via USB thumb drive.
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@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@haitch Just talked to my supplier to clear up some questions.
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Drives will be $177 each, free shipping in the USA. International shipping will be an additional cost,on a case by case basis, and any import/customs fees are the responsibility of the purchaser.
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The drives are warrantied until 2020, not the usual eBay 30 days.
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If we can put together an order for more than 100 drives, we'll get better pricing.
The Payment/shipping arrangement will be that you paypal me the funds, I pay my supplier in one bulk payment, with your address and quantity, they'll ship directly.
I'll hold the order window open up to July 3rd. If you want to order, paypal the funds to hamish@haitch.net , and include your shipping address in the transfer message. July 3rd I'll submit the order to my supplier, and the drives will ship from there.
H.
What if you reached the 100pcs are you going to send back the discount from the $177?
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@Yey_09 If we reach 100 pcs, I'll return the price difference.
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@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@rds Yep SAS2 controller AND backplane to break the 2TB barrier. For the OS I use a 500GB SSD drive connected to one of the systems SATA3 controllers. And specify a large swap file on the SSD.
OS Installed via USB thumb drive.
Does this sound doable??
I have an existing PC computer with six SATA III drives and 25- USB 3.0 external drives running a GPU miner.
Can I put a 6x4 SAS controller PCI card in it and run 6 SAS connectors to a 24 bay server box?
The server box would house the HDDs plugged into the SAS2 backplane. It would also have 1 or 2 integrated power supplies to provide power to the HDDs. The server box would be near enough to the computer box to connect the 6 SAS cords to the SAS controller card in the PC.
No MoBo, Ram etc in the server box.
As I have all my drive letter allocated in the PC, I would continue mounting the 24 new drives as c:\Drive55, c:\Drive56, etc.
What do you think?
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@rds Definitely doable. That's how I plan to expand my servers using: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E26-RJBOD1
You'd need a a SAS card with two external connectors, that'll take care of all drives via internal expanders, and the external chassis can be daisy chained to another
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I might be interested in these, at least 30 of them most likely, I'm sure that would help with the 'getting to 100' . Keep me in the loop.
Thanks!
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@crowetic I'm looking at 45, so if you commit to 30, we should be really close to the 100
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@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@crowetic I'm looking at 45, so if you commit to 30, we should be really close to the 100
Yea, I'll go ahead and commit to it, might even go for a few more if you need me to.
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haitch if my asset starts selling i may be good for a few too
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@haitch i can commit to one 8 tb wd internal. :( wish i could do more but the crypto life has me tapped out.
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@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@rds Definitely doable. That's how I plan to expand my servers using: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E26-RJBOD1
You'd need a a SAS card with two external connectors, that'll take care of all drives via internal expanders, and the external chassis can be daisy chained to another
Can you point me to a typical SAS2 card for the pC and the connectors I would need for the 24 drive. box?
Also, I will commit to 24 drives.
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@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
Drives will be $177 each, free shipping in the USA. International shipping will be an additional cost,on a case by case basis, and any import/customs fees are the responsibility of the purchaser.
@haitch thanks for asking! unfortunately this is very expensive here - so i'm out.
I really liked the idea and i think the deal is pretty good.
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@rds For the controller, I've got LSI 24i4e, like this:
but mine was only $300, so you need to be patient to pick one up.
For the connectors, on a typical system you'd need 6 of these:
Or for a backplane that has individual SATA connectors, 6 of these:
With you commitment to 24, that takes us over the 100 drives - will call supplier and see what pricing we can get.
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@haitch , ok, thanks.
This one is right under it in the ebay listing, will it work, $195??
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@rds that'll work for an external chassis with a SAS expander backplane. It's SAS2, so not limited to the 2TB max disk size.
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@haitch , ok great, one more thing, haha, does the card have to be in the PCI x16 or PCI x8 to insure the high speed or is any one of the expansion slots on the mobo ok, even the real short one? I have 4 USB 3.0 controller cards and a GPU currently in the slots now.
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@rds The SAS cards are generally PCIe 4x - they won't go into the really short slots, but will work in any other slot.
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@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
Drives will be $177 each, free shipping in the USA. International shipping will be an additional cost,on a case by case basis, and any import/customs fees are the responsibility of the purchaser.
Do you have any clue how much shipping to germany would be? I just rolled some numbers and if the shipping is low enough, I would only have to pay taxes on it and no custom fees... Than it would be still 30% cheaper than in Germany
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@Shoiji I'll ask.


