The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PleaseHelpIamFkd on 2024-12-03 20:57:07.

I bought a “NetApp DS4246 Disk Array Shelf W/ 24x SAS Trays 2x IOM6 SAS Expansion Array” off of eBay many moons ago and ended up finding it easier to just keep shoveling drives into windows and letting Plex do its thing with drive mappings out the wazoo. Now I have 3 separate servers with 3 different storage space arrays that I would like to combine down to one single array of some sort. They all max out the 64TB of windows storage spaces with varying drives of varying capacities but all 3 arrays would fit nicely into one of the 3 servers and my single NetApp enclosure as DAS.

I’m a tad confused as to how this works though and its been so long ago the post that originally recommended me to purchase the NetApp has since been deleted. Could someone guide me to getting the NetApp drives to be accessible from my server? I am not sure what images or other info to provide as I am very confused with this vein of tech. I’m used to NAS devices, single servers, virtualization, but having drives from a device like this appear as native storage on another machine confuses me.

Once the NetApp is attached I plan to use StableBit to combine all the drives into one, large pool. There is less than 200GB of “mission critical” data than I do not want to lose that will be stored (and backed up) elsewhere, but the data on this I am not worried about losing, so no raid 5, no backups, not worried about that for now. I did purchase a HexOS license and do plan to implement a HexOS install when I am given access, but that’ll be later down the road and still require the original issue here to be resolved.

Thank you for any help you can provide.