hello i am new here on the fourm but have been watching level 1 for a while now and love it. but i have come to an issue, i have a dell t3500 with a xeon x 5660 and 48 gb of ddr 3 ecc 1333, and i am going to use this to replace my current free nas box, but i am looking for a good set up as in i will need a sas raid card that can support hba for zfs. and i need a disk array, i have been looking for a little bit and have found a cheap one on ebay a netapp ds4243 which looks promising but i have no experience with sas controllers or disk arrays, so my questions is more then likely simple for most of you guys here.
1. is the netapp disk array any good?
2. what raid card would you recommend to use for it?
3. how would i go about hooking it up to the dell t3500? i.e how many sas cables would i need and what about the acp could i just use a 2nd nic?
any help would be greatly appreciated and if you need more info, please ask and i will provide as much as i can, thank you very much.