I understand why you went with the Intel NIC. The realtek 8111c onboard NIC is horrible, drops off nearly every night and you can't wake it up. I made all of the adjustments to ensure the card never is turns off to save power or the such; power management is set properly in WHS and on the motherboard. I connected a mouse just to try to wake up the PC until my new card arrives. PITA. Intel NIC on the way.

Also, got the 110CFM Sycthe Slipstreams in - nice! Now 330CFM which is more than stock fans and I still don't hear the unit over my other PCs. These are the highest output slipstreams, running 37dba each per the box, about 40 for all three.

Which NIC did you buy, I was actually looking at getting this Intel NIC?

$40.00 plus shipping via UPS ground.

About a month ago, I increased the capacity of my MSS to about 27 TB by adding an additional Sans Digital TR4U 4-bay USB external enclosure with 4-1.5 TB Seagate drives. That's 20 drives in the MSS (1- 500 GB system drive and 19-1.5 TB drives as well as 2-500 GB drives for BDBB backups). As I've been increasing the storage capacity of my MSS, I've been thinking about building a WHS that is considerably more robust and could contain all of my storage capacity in one box. I started the process with quite a lot of research about the various components that would satisfy my criteria for a robust WHS. After much back and forth, I finally settled on as set of components, purchased everything I needed and began assembling the computer. I'm not completely finished as I still have several power cables to build and I'm working an a modification to the fan wall so it can accommodate 3 - 120 mm fans instead of 4-80 mm fans. Anyway, I'd like to introduce Andromeda.

Case: Norco RPC-4220 (20 - 3.5" hot swap sata drive bays + 1 - 2.5" drive bay)
PSU - Corsair HX750W
Mobo - Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H
CPU - AMD 5050e
RAM - 4 GB (2 x 2 GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800) (only 3.5 GB is recognized)
SATA controller cards: (2) - Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8
ODD - Sony AD7590S slim DVD RW drive
System Drive: Kingston SSDNow V series 128 GB SSD
Storage Pool: No drives yet, however, there will be 20 - 2 TB Seagate LP or WD GP drives or a mix of the two.
OS - WHS

I'd like to especially thank erail for his generous help with the installation of the WHS software and integrating it into my network with the MSS. I've had the software installed and running stable for several days now. According to CPUID HWMonitor, the cpu is running at 20 deg C. I've not installed any hard drives into the storage pool yet as I want to get the box finished before I start building the storage pool in case I have to reinstall the OS. I have added the Advanced Admin Console addin as well as Toolkit v. 1.0, but that's all I've done so far.

Below are a few pictures. More will follow as I finish the power cables and replace one of the SATA backplanes that had a defective SAS connector, (should be here on Monday) and finish all of the cabling.

Jim,

Did you connect the 4 pin molex power connectors on the right side of the backplane? There are two per backplane, but supposedly you only need one per backplane. I've connected the power connectors on both.

Jim,

Have you tried the drives in another PC to make sure they aren't dead? Also, have you put a volt meter to the cables coming out of your PSU to make sure you're getting voltage out? If you're using a modular PSU, have you tried a different socket? I find it hard to believe that all 5 backplanes are bad. Start with the source (PSU) and trace the power through the backplanes. Also, are you sure you've got the drives screwed in the trays correctly so the connectors on the drives make a proper connection with the backplane? The drives actually stick out a ways from the end of the tray.

Reverse SAS to sata cables are required to the motherboard and for my SFF-8087 cables I could only get them to work in one direction as well. If I flipped the cable the other way (end plugged into the MV8 now plugged into the backplane and vice versa) it was a no go.

I just ordered the cables that they request, But they still did not answer my question. I had my son that has the exact
same case try out what I wanted to know. install a motherboard (any) with power supply and plug just the 4pin plug into the backplane nothing else and let me know if the drive spins, He did that and YES the drive spins.
I know its hard to believe but I think I have a bad case. I will wait for the cables to come in and let everyone
know how I made out.
I want to thank cavediver for the help he has given me so far and everyone else out there
Jim