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*Chapters:*
00:00 Introduction
00:14 New Hard Drives!
01:30 Supermicro Enclosure
04:05 EVGA 510BP Power Supply
05:28 Dell 5R10N SAS Expander
07:25 SAS Expander Power Connection
08:07 SAS Backplane Power Connection
11:51 Drive Cooling Fans
12:30 SAS Drive Cabling
13:25 SAS Expander Cooling
13:50 Power-On Testing
14:32 All Drives Installed!
14:55 LSI SAS9200-8e Controller
16:02 Host Server Connection
16:52 First Power-On
17:26 Does It Work?!
18:29 Final Thoughts/Conclusions
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