The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/phospholipid77 on 2024-09-17 22:14:50.

In 18 years of tech I have never built out my own box. So, despite my joyful expertise I am a kindergartner on this topic.

We’re nursing an old OWC Callisto Jupiter and Kore. The Jupiter is 16x 4T I think, and the Kore is 16X 12T. The units are connected with a data cable. The mobo on the Jupiter is a Supermicro X9SRH-7F/7TF. The OS is TrueNAS CORE on an SSD connected to the board.

We’re running out of resources. The processor is fine enough. We have plenty of RAM. But we’re running into issues with the PCIe slots. They’re PCIe 3. There are three of them. One of them is the RAID controller, one is a 2X SFP+, one is for the data connector for the units. There were two on-board 1G ethernet ports but they are busted. I cam make them work with a wedge, but… eh.

In an ideal world I would like to replace the mobo. The cases are fine. But we would like PCIe 4. We would like to do a 4x aggregate SFP+ fiber to the 40/100G switch. I would like a 2x aggregate SFP+ to the other network. We also want to do a couple of other things.

How difficult is it to do what I want? In my plan I would use the same OS drive and the same RAID controller. I would get a new mobo/CPU with the same form factor, get the cards I want, do the repair and turn it on without issue.

Is this stupid?