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We have a Norco 24-E which is not a system case, but an external drive enclosure with a SAS expander. I don't know if its the same backplane but I don't know wh
by btbuilder 14y ago
We have a Norco 24-E which is not a system case, but an external drive enclosure with a SAS expander. I don't know if its the same backplane but I don't know why it wouldn't be. This article scared me because we have 24 SAS 15k rpm drives on it.
Then I checked the drive spec and saw that we are pulling 0.8A on the +5V rail and 1.2A on the +12V rail which is even more than these 3TB SATA drives without backplane issues for months.
We did have to upsize the case's PSU from the shipped 500W though as beyond 15 drives we got voltage warnings from the expander.
So I think YMMV.