# Weird Motherboard Issues with Storage Pod 2.0

**URL:** https://forum.45homelab.com/t/weird-motherboard-issues-with-storage-pod-2-0/1317
**Category:** Hardware
**Tags:** chassis, help-and-suggestions
**Created:** [March 27, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/weird-motherboard-issues-with-storage-pod-2-0/1317 "2024-03-27T17:17:54Z")
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### Author: ![DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/user_avatar/forum.45homelab.com/digitalgarden/32/1785_2.png) [@DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/DigitalGarden)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/weird-motherboard-issues-with-storage-pod-2-0/1317/8 "2024-03-29T17:12:07Z")

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Also see

[https://forum.45homelab.com/t/modding-upgrading-backblaze-storage-pod-2-0/737](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/modding-upgrading-backblaze-storage-pod-2-0/737)

if you have not.

You can contact 45Drives and they will give you a quote on a bare Q30.

It seems like most of the design work has been done and it’s really more a matter of acquiring the boards the drive connectors mount to and doing all the cable management to wire those in. Tedious, but probably less expensive than a bare Q30. I think the HL folks have been pretty adamant that a HL30 is not on the radar any time soon. I shouldn’t think ‘direct wired’ with actual wires would be less reliable than the direct wired backplanes.

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