[Cialug] Poweredge 2950 oh....crap

[Dave Hala]

Irrc, the raid controller in those servers was fairly particular about
the drives that you put in it.

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
> 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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