Question 1

Does this case support an ATX motherboard? The newegg specs say it only takes EATX, but the manufacturer's website seems to say it supports motherboards upto EATX, so does that mean it'll take ATX motherboards as well? We don't want to do any drilling...

Accepted Answer

Yes, my ATX Motherboard (Asus P5K wifi-deluxe) fit fine.

Question 2

Is the backplane the BPN-SAS-846EL1, does it have 24 seperate SATA cable connections or is it HBA with 6 ports?

Accepted Answer

The backplane has 24 SATA connectors. There is a different model number that has the other style if that's what you're looking for.

Question 3

Can this product configured with a single mother board, support 4 separate iSCSI RAID 5s  (with 6 hard drives in each raid 5 ) ?

Accepted Answer

I can give a partial answer: I use this chassis with a single MoBo and three SYBA PEX-40071 8-port SATA cards (which are JBOD only), then configure everything in software RAID (Ubuntu/*nix OS with ZFS).  I would bet you could find 6-port hardware RAID SATA cards and a MoBo that could fit 4 of them, but I don't know iSCSI setups at all - can't tell you whether that would help or not.

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