[Cialug] Poweredge 2950 oh....crap

[David Champion]

I would guess that you can't easily change a 2950 from the 2.5 to 3.5
backplane. I have one that's 3.5" and I'm running a mix of a RAID5 with 3
SAS drives, and a RAID1 with 2 SATA drives.

As was mentioned before, I'd look into gettting some decent 2.5" laptop or
external HD SATA drives, like make sure they're at least 7200 rpm, and
throw those in there.

-dc

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Justin Richeson <neomatrixjr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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