[Cialug] Poweredge 2950 oh....crap

[Dave Hala]

Since its not a production machine, buy a bunch of cheap 1tb sata
laptop drives and put then in a raid array.

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:
> Let's face it.  You're just going to have to bite the bullet and build that 2TB x 6-disk SSD RAID array (yes, that's a redundant "array"... pardon the puns!) Superspeed storage server.
>
> :D
>
> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>
> Sent from my android device.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 1:17
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Poweredge 2950 oh....crap
>
> I am not an expert on the hardware side of things, but the bit of
> googling I did does not look good. It would appear the only way is to use
> 2.5" drives.
> http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/906/t/19492666
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Justin Richeson <neomatrixjr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> For those familiar with 2950's; uh...so how bad did I crap this one up?  I
>> got a 2950 off craigslist.  Somehow...I didn't notice until I got it
>> home...probably because it never crossed my mind they came this way...but
>> it takes 2.5" drives instead of 3.5".  Basically I'm totally hosed right?
>> There's no way (cheaply) to convert this to 3.5 is there?
>>
>> --Justin
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