Spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to find out how to connect these disks, found lots of documents but not a straight answer and would live some guidance please.
As they are 2.5 form factor I assume I would need an adapter to use the 4 internal 3.5 bays? Will they simply attach to the backplane like the 3.5 sata disks do? From what I read I can then just swap the connectors from the internal sata ports onto the SAS ports?
Alternatively, I've seen an icybox 4 bay SAS caddy that installs in the 5.25 bays, so could just get one of these?
Doors the Z800 support dual channel sas so I could connect the SAS caddy to the 8 SAS ports?
I'd read that only 5 SAS drives can be connected yet there are 8 ports?
Can I use both a mix of both sata and SAS?
Whilst im on a roll, I also can't figure out why the on board nic doesnt work. I know one is for management but I should be able to use the other? I can only see the PCI nic in device manager and network settings.
Thanks in advance!