In this video I'm going to show you guys what I think just might be the perfect JBOD SAS expander board! This is a board from a Dell enterprise storage system with Dell P/N 6TDVN or 5R10N. This is a SAS-2 expander board with 24-internal SAS lanes (in 6x SFF8087 ports) and 12-external SAS lanes (in 3x SFF8088 ports). We'll take a close look at this board and talk about it's features, as well the problem with powering on this board. I will also demonstrate a proof of concept build on how to use this board for building your own JBOD DAS disk enclosure chassis.

If you'd like to get one of these Dell JBOD SAS expanders, check it out here: https://ebay.to/3MCBd19

Video index:
0:14 - some back story
3:59 - a close up look at the Dell JBOD SAS expander board
6:43 - the problem with this Dell JBOD SAS expander
8:07 - Dell and their shananigans. The story about my old PowerEdge 1800
10:04 - a solution to the problem; customer power adapter cable
10:58 - describing the proof of concept (PoC) demonstration setup
15:19 - powering on the PoC and verifying that it works!
23:19 - wrapping it up
23:58 - server hardware drama pr0n; just having a little fun ;-P

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