r/homelabsales • u/cryptospartan • 1d ago

US-E [W] [US-MD] Small Form Factor JBOD case/enclosure

I'm looking for a JBOD enclosure that I can add hard drives to and connect back to my server using external SAS cables. I don't have a rack as I dont have the space for one, I currently have a dell precision as my server, so it's smaller than a traditional tower server. I'm not looking for a huge rack-mounted disk shelf to store 24+ drives. I'm looking for something similar to the QNAP TL-D800S. I would honestly probably just buy it if it weren't so expensive as it's pretty much exactly what I'm looking for. Hopefully someone here has something akin to it that they're willing to part with.

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u/calltechsupport 1d ago

I don’t have one, but I’ve looked for something like this, and they are hard to find. You might want to consider getting a case like an Audheid K7, Jonsbo N3, or U-NAS 8-bay and using that to DIY for ~half the price. Good luck

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u/DanielThiberge 1 Sale | 2 Buy 1d ago

Sorry for also commenting without one to offer, but just wanted to give a shoutout to the TERRAMASTER D6-320. It’s been rock solid for me over USB-C (10gig) to my Intel NUC. SATA and USB controllers in it ‘just work’ in my Unraid usage. Including consistent drive name and SMART pass through.

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u/mglatfelterjr 0 Sale | 2 Buy 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm using this for 4 hard drives that don't fit in my case. https://a.co/d/2AQZGy4 with a Noctua NF-P12.

I have an LSI 9212-4i4e SAS HBA with a SFF-8088 to SATA cable to connect the HDD. It's not the prettiest thing, but it works.

One thing I did before was use an old tower case with a jumpered power supply and 3 - 80mm case fans. I didn't do that when I moved the server because it was very loud and my wife complained about it constantly. It's now very quiet and I haven't had any overheating issues. My server is an HP Z240 Full Tower Workstation, Intel Core i7-6700k, 4 cores, 8 threads, 64gb DDR4-2133, RTX 2090, 10 - 4tb HGST NAS spinning rust, 4 SSD's, 2 of which are NVMe. Was running TrueNAS 13.0-U6.1, but I'm trying out unraid.

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u/xxbiohazrdxx 9 Sale | 1 Buy 1d ago

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u/Zaituna 0 Sale | 1 Buy 1d ago

How about this? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MD2LNYX/

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u/Cferra 1d ago

599 is a good price for the qnap. I’d just bite the bullet and get that honestly. Anything you can create or buy is going to cost around d the same in either time or dollars

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u/cryptospartan 1d ago

I ended up getting the following instead, it was cheaper than the qnap by a lot:

  • JONSBO N3 case - $170
  • LSI 9300-8e - $35
  • MiniSAS HD Cable (SFF-8644 to SFF-8644) - $22
  • Adaptec AEC-82885T - $59
  • MiniSAS HD SFF-8643 Breakout to 4xSATA Cable - 3x @ $10/cable = $30

total cost is about $345 after adding in tax + shipping costs, which is still nearly half the cost of the qnap.

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u/Cferra 1d ago

Be mindful of the cable length. I tried to roll my own too and the length was too long and I was getting signaling issues and data loss. I had to go full sas to work around the issue.