I've read about the G7 having problems with hardware that it does not recognize. Fans increasing to 100%
The cage exposes 5 satas plus I think 2 Sata power supply. I think that the pcie hba sas + sas to Sata cables solution is the best way to go. It should allow future disks expansions pretty easily.
Wow you seem to know your stuff, I'll keep looking for the 6bay enclosure.
I'm not finding much from where I am from, but found a guy selling a really cheap MSA30 with 150gb disks on all bays. There are so many acronyms.
Do you think this would work or does it require specific disks? I have no idea how it interfaces with the server, it seems to have a network interface?
Sorry If i'm being too dense, enterprise stuff is complicated and usually not compatible
I think this should not be viewed negatively. There's this pressure to 'grow up' and have a stable job and a family that many people don't fit into. I find it super hard to decouple the stuff I do because i want to and the stuff I do because it is ingrained in my by our societal expectations.