We have a TrueNas installation running on a Dell vxrail e560. All of our drive bays are full, and the server is at around 80% capacity right now. I’d like to add a JBOD to the setup out of an old Fortinet “Fortianalyzer-3500F” (Model: FAZ-3500F) which has 24 hard drive bays on the front… what I am trying to do is make this as easy as possible with the least amount of equipment, but I want to make sure that I’m not missing anything.
So we have a few dell SAS controller cards. (Model 342-0910) that allows for two incoming SAS cables. Am I correct in assuming that if I remove the motherboard from the Fortinet unit entirely, and keep only the backplane and PSU, I should be able to just use this as a JBOD? I purchased a couple Mini SAS SFF-8088 (external) to SFF-8087 (internal) adapter cards to put into the JBOD.
I tried to attach some photos here, but I can’t. And I can’t link offsite either. Copy and paste, and remove the space, for additional photos of the equipment:
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Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!