I know this is probably a really strange question but believe it or not, after having spent a solid week scouring the internet (every tutorial, every forum, every review on every RAID controller on Newegg) I am at a complete loss.
I want to setup a 12-drive RAID without buying an expensive enclosure. I figured I'd buy a huge tower that could house 12 3.5" 4 TB drives. Then I'd toss in a motherboard and a 12-drive RAID controller.
Then I ran into a huge brick wall.
How do you actually hook the hard drives up to the RAID controller? Every controller I look at everywhere only has one or two SAS ports.
So this means even if I bought a 12-drive RAID controller, I'd actually need to buy six of those controllers and hook two drives up to each RAID controller via a SAS -> SATA cable.
I'm at my wits end on this one. Please could someone explain to me, simply, how you get the HDD's hooked up to the RAID controller *without* going through an enclosure that magically wires all the cards together i a way where they need only a SAS connector to go to the RAID controller which is simply what I'm assuming the enclosures do.
I want to setup a 12-drive RAID without buying an expensive enclosure. I figured I'd buy a huge tower that could house 12 3.5" 4 TB drives. Then I'd toss in a motherboard and a 12-drive RAID controller.
Then I ran into a huge brick wall.
How do you actually hook the hard drives up to the RAID controller? Every controller I look at everywhere only has one or two SAS ports.
So this means even if I bought a 12-drive RAID controller, I'd actually need to buy six of those controllers and hook two drives up to each RAID controller via a SAS -> SATA cable.
I'm at my wits end on this one. Please could someone explain to me, simply, how you get the HDD's hooked up to the RAID controller *without* going through an enclosure that magically wires all the cards together i a way where they need only a SAS connector to go to the RAID controller which is simply what I'm assuming the enclosures do.
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