[Cialug] Poweredge 2950 oh....crap

[Scott Yates]

It looks like those SSD drives are meant for read heavy workloads, but area
very good drives:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/9430/micron-m510dc-480gb-enterprise-sata-ssd-review

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> I wonder if it would be ok with the Micron drives maybe.  They are meant
> for DataCenter use.
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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