Otherwise it’s going to be difficult to rewire the backplane to work with a standard PSU. Ideally you would pick up the R720 motherboard and just use that. It should have multiple SAS connectors on it (how many depend on how many bays - with a 12-bay chassis, it’ll be either 2 or 4 SAS connectors, likely). The backplane will definitely connect to a RAID card or HBA. The more I look into it the less likely it seems but like I said there is little to no documentation online I can find for the actual electrics on this. If it works I was going to keep the chassis and could maybe make it into some sort of DAS box project. Which is a pretty sweet bonus! I was going to see if the backplane would pass through drives to a raid card. Turns out it came with the backplane also. I bought an empty R720 12 bay chassis because the drive trays and spare fans it came with (what I was after) were cheaper than buying all that stuff separately. The part number for the backplane is PGXHP
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