Hi Everyone,
I am looking for anyone that might have an old SAS storage array sitting around gathering dust, even if broken/faulty. I am looking to replace my home backup array which I made a few years ago out of a HP DL380 G4 (See picture) that I hacked up and retrofitted for SAS/SATA. I would continue to use this, but due to the way I retrofitted it, it is simply acting as an external bay, there is no hot swap controller modules for each bay, making hot-swap an extremely dangerous procedure.
Failing that, an old server with a 6x 3.5" SAS back plane that I could perform the same chop job on would be great also.
My budget for this is cheap to free as this is not for anything commercial, simply for learning, testing, messing around, etc.