External raid for XW-8600

[Tony Quinsee-Jover]

When I move away from my videoraid I'm a bit stuck on what to get,
bearing in mind the i/o limitations of an XW-8600 running Win7.  I have
MC running on newer kit but I need to keep my DS running for a multitude
of legacy stuff.

So... I have the SAS SCSI port on the workstation; is there a
Thunderbolt to SAS adaptor I could use?  Or USB C to SAS?

What would be my best route forwards here?

Thanks,
Tony


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[Glenn Sakatch]

I don't have DS installed anymore, so i honestly can't remember how the drive configs worked on it.

I switched to a promise raid Thunderbolt 2 when my raid died. 

I then added some qnap setups with 10g when i needed lots of storage.

Again, ds was being used less and less, but i'm pretty

sure i used the qnap with it at some point.  I was on a z8200,  at the time.

My z8200 has the thunderbolt 2 card built specifically for it, so it could connect to the promise raid directly

Most  thunderbolt cards can be pretty hit and miss, based on the motherboard 

you are connecting to.  Best to have one with TB built in, or designed specifically for your board.  

Are you saying you have no open slots for a 10g connection or anything like that?

I think most thunderbolt adapters need the thunderbolt card in the computer, connecting to a non thunderbolt device.

I'm not sure you can go the other way around.

Their might be a mini sas to 10g convertor somewhere.  

Glenn

[Dermot Shane]

i have a z800/w7 for the same reason

it has a RocketRaid 6g SAS card and a 8 slot SansDigital SAS cage at the other end

over here they are both dead cheap now, but harder to find

my z820 has the HP Tbolt2 card, with an apple Tbolt2->3 adpt, correct drivers, Paragon HFS+ in play it seems to be working well aside from one brand of array (OWC)

don't think there was any pathway to Tbolt on 8600/z800

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[Tony Quinsee-Jover]

I’ll take the side off the 8600 tomorrow and see what’s in what slot. 

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