{"id":274,"date":"2020-06-02T20:56:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T01:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2025-07-10T18:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:42:52","slug":"conversion-of-supermicro-cse-846-to-a-jbod-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Conversion of Supermicro CSE-846 to a JBOD Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not too much to write here, but, as the title states, I converted the case for my hyper-converged server setup into a simple JBOD Shelf. You can follow the original “journey” at this reddit post: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/homelab\/comments\/g611uu\/convert_supermicro_chassis_from_server_into_jbod\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From that post you will see that we needed some equipment:

1 x ($28) Dual Mini SAS SFF-8088 to SAS36P SFF-8087 Adapter<\/a> in PCI Bracket
2 x ($16) CABLEDECONN Mini SAS26P SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 1M External Cable<\/a>
1 x ($130) SUPERMICRO Computer Power Control Board for JBOD Support IPMI 2.00<\/a>
1 x ($20) Supermicro CBL-NTWK-0587 1.6FT CAT5e RJ-45 Extension Cable<\/a> — (Note that I actually got this directly from Supermicro because I couldn’t actually find it for sale, they just don’t have a good link.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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This is the CSE-846 with the old system board removed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Here are some of the components getting laid out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Here are the final pictures after I mounted the IPMI Power Board to the center of the case, the extension cable and bracket installed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So there we have it… A regular hyper-converged server converted over to a JBOD shelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not too much to write here, but, as the title states, I converted the case for my hyper-converged server setup into a simple JBOD Shelf. You can follow the original “journey” at this reddit post: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/homelab\/comments\/g611uu\/convert_supermicro_chassis_from_server_into_jbod\/ From that post you will see that we needed some equipment: 1 x ($28) Dual Mini SAS SFF-8088 to SAS36P … Continue reading Conversion of Supermicro CSE-846 to a JBOD Shelf<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobsylvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}