Hey Homelabers,
The wait is over! The Beast is available for purchase now.
Check out the specs on our store - https://store.45homelab.com/
Thank you, for your patience and support
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In the table, for “Chassis & Backplane & PSU”, you don’t list the PSU. Just FYI.
In the Asrock version, how do the SSD slots connect to the motherboard, or do they? I’m assuming that is only SATA in that version, not SAS? Or does someone have to bring their own HBA in that variant for the SSDs? And the cage is only for 7mm SSDs?
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Thank you for pointing that out. We will get that corrected ASAP.
In the ASRock board, we use LSI 9305-24i to connect all drives from the backplanes to the motherboard.
The SSD bay is designed for a 7mm SSD. If you have an SAS SSD they it will give you better speed as the backplanes are connected to the HBA.
Thank you,
The table lists a LSI 9400-16i for the Asrock and a LSI 9305-24i for the Asus. Is that not correct? I assumed that was an intentional architectural/pricing choice and not a misprint.
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Hey @DigitalGarden
You are correct. My apologies what i meant was that the Pro Art uses the LSI 9300-24I to connect all drives, whereas the ASRock uses the LSI 9400-16i, which connects the 15 HDD bays, and the 8 SSDs are connected to the motherboard.
Nice! I will certainly be ordering one once I have a chance to spec things out.
I don’t see tri-mode listed anywhere for the backplane. Is this still coming or is it no longer being worked on?
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Is the Pro art version with ECC Udimms?
Is an upgrade possible to 1500w of the power supply? (HXi1500 from Corsair?) does it fit?
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And the ROMED8-2T/BCM motherboard only supports SATA, correct? That’s how I’m reading the spec sheet on ASRock’s website.
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This looks great. Two questions:
- CPU cooler says 15cm, but the Noctua NH-D15 G2 LBC is taller than that IIRC. Is this the true height allowance?
- Will the small rails still fit? If so, will the chassis hang out the back of the rack?
Also thank you for making Noctua the standard offering for the case fans. 
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Hi @nvsravank the Pro art version comes with Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 Memory, which is non-ECC UDIMM
Hi @rymandle05 You’re correct that the ROMED8-2T/BCM supports SATA, but it’s not limited to that. According to ASRock’s specs, the board provides ten SATA 6 Gb/s ports via mini-SAS HD connectors, and it also includes two M.2 slots that can operate in either SATA or PCIe 4.0 ×4 (NVMe) mode.
So, in short — it supports both SATA and NVMe storage, depending on which slots you’re using
Thanks @rachit-45Drives - summarizing, the default configuration with the ASROCK full build is 15 HDD SAS/SATA via HBA and 8 SDD SATA only via motherboard mini-sas-hd connection. NVME can also be available but not through the backplane.
I don’t know how much demand there is for this but you may want to consider offering the 9305-24i as an alternative option for anyone who would want all SAS.
Instead of “Direct Wired 45Drives 23x SATA/SAS” you might want to say “Direct Wired 45Drives 15x 3.5in SATA/SAS & 8x 2.5in 7mm SATA”.
Not trying to nitpick, but judging by the comments here there is a segment of your customers looking for all-SAS support including 15mm high enterprise 2.5in SAS SSDs.
There was similar clarification often needed for the HL15 v1 where the fully built config only supported SAS drives in 7 of the 15 bays, even though the backplane itself supports SAS on all bays.
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Hi @DigitalGarden Thanks for the update, will make that update.
@nvsravank The ECC answer is a bit confusing. I had the same question as you so I went down the Google and AI rabbit hole. The Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 memory has on-die ECC, but this isn’t the same as the ECC memory used in the ROMED8-2T/BCM systems. On-die ECC works inside the chips themselves to detect and correct single bit errors within the chip before the data is sent to the CPU. Traditional server ECC operates over the memory channel, where it detects and corrects errors during data transfer between the CPU and memory modules. So it is a more robust error correction solution where on-die ECC helps reduce defect rates within the DRAM.
Now, do you need ECC for ZFS systems? I don’t want to wade into that debate, but it was well covered by a couple of the TrueNas Team in this video.
@Vikram-45HomeLab any plans to offer a case only version?
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@OldSoftwareGuy Yes. I am planning to use it for ZFS and for me ECC is just peace of mind but wanted none the less. The answer from Rachit is clear and enough for me to make my decision.
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Is there going to be an exact dimension of motherboard that the new chassis is compatible with? I have an SSI-EEB sized motherboard I’d like to try and get some use out of before that socket is no longer supported.
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