[Cialug] Poweredge 2950 oh....crap

[Jim Cole]

You can cannibalize the seagate external drives for 4TB 2.5s and use those.

https://www.servethehome.com/seagate-4tb-2-5-sata-hdd-124-get-ready-density/

I'm finding it too costly to run enterprise servers for home..I fired up a
HP DL 380 G7 and it was running about 300 watts idle..600 watts on boot.
It was just too expensive to keep running 24x7x365.



On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:03 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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