[Cialug] Poweredge 2950 oh....crap

[Justin Richeson]

I wonder if those would make a decent drive to put in my desktop and
install games to?

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> 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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