[Cialug] Poweredge 2950 oh....crap

[Scott Yates]

Or a few of these maybe?

https://smile.amazon.com/Micron-M510DC-MTFDDAK960MBP-960GB-2-5-Inch/dp/B011EBKNIW

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:

> 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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