On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 11:13:55 -0000 (UTC) Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2019-04-13, John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:05:29 -0000 (UTC) > > Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > > >> On 2019-04-11, John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> wrote: > >> > I have a Dell server that was advertised to support 4x3.5 + 2x2.5 > >> > drives but when I popped it open I found there are only 4 SATA > >> > ports on the motherboard total. So of the 6 claimed drives, I can > >> > actually only install 3 drives because the stock DVD drive > >> > consumes a mobo port. > >> > >> You missed the important information of *which* server. > > > > Ah sorry. > > > >> If it's one of the usual poweredge then you're usually better off > >> with whatever they normally use for RAID systems (you can usually > >> find them second-hand). > > > > Yeah T30 PowerEdge. The local shop has the card Dell recommended, > > but I'm not sure I trust them since it's unlikely Dell tests > > anything but a thousand variants of Windows and *maybe* RedHat. > > > > /jl > > > > > > Ah ok. You might as well treat this as a whitebox PC then as there > aren't any standard hardware RAID/etc options for these (and you > don't need to worry about cables from card to backplane) > > Had it been a Txx0 or Rxx0 then there would be a more obvious choice. Dell does have a part number for this since they did this on purpose apparently so they can sell a half-baked server and then sell you a card which they know you will need...but I am not sure if it is a good choice.. Anyway thanks to everybody who answered. :) /jl
