Well I finally replaced the back-plane on the second NAS system I had built. The back-plane had come damaged and reseller had sent me a replacement a couple of weeks ago but today is the first time I had time to replace it.
I thought I could replace it while in the rack but the grounding screw for the back-plane was blocked by the rail for the rack so I had to pull the whole system out of the rack. The big deal about pulling the system out of the rack is it is about 100 lbs plus filled out and at the bottom of the rack so it is not optimal for one person putting it back in. To assist me placing the system back into the rack and lining up the rails I stacked up some thick books that provided me a platform to line up the rails in the rack.
Here is a close up of the damaged SAS interfaces on the back-plane. This is the reason I needed to replace the back-plane.
I had to pull out the drives & empty drive bays so I could slide the backplane into place.
This is the inside front of the NAS system minus the back-plane.
This shows damaged backplane next to replacement backplane.
Some backplane connections I had to temporarily disconnect to slide in the replacement back-plane.
Everything tested fine and all drives are seen and the storage is presented to virtual environment and systems just fine again. Only issue is one of the LED connections that shows blue power on LED is out in upper right.
