On 05/09/11 8:10 AM, Jason wrote: > The only thing that confuses me about chassis like these is I always miss something that I needed to order to complete the machine. They all come with different things. In the chassis you mention. I would obviously need to still need to buy a mobo, processor, RAM, RAID cards... I would use mdraid mirroring on a system like that. Cabling-wise, you would need a non-raid SAS card for the supermicro, one with 1-2 SFF-8087 4 channel SAS connectors, as the supermicro case has expander backplanes If thats all too much, then buy a complete system from a VAR who integrates it for you, or something like... http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/servers/iss3500.html (which sure looks like the exact same thing to me)