[geeks] T610 SAS upgrade (was: Re: Enterprise SATA hard drive recommendations)

[Mark Benson]

On 4 Dec 2013, at 21:03, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

The REDs ARE for homeNAS, but my home server is not on 24x7, so I think I 'm
OK.

I just got a PERC6/i for my T605 for about $50 IIRC, does your machine have
a
SAS or SATA controller? A SAS upgrade might be in order... And affordable.

DOH! This just hit me as monumentally stupid.

Our T610 is a pretty full-blooded Dell tower server (dual 4-core CPUs, 8GB
RAM), it has a SAS RAID card (PERC SAS 6/iR), the current drives are 500GB
SATA Seagate ESs but running off that card in a RAID 1 pair. At the time
they were 1/4 of the price of SAS drives half the size.
I looked up the prices for SAS disks and seriously had NO idea SAS drives
had dropped so far in price. In that case I'll throw a couple of SAS 1TB
disks in it, and not bother with SATA. My fault, should have checked that
beforehand.

Any preferences on SAS drive manufacturers? Looks like the only decent UK
supplier (Span.com) offer a choice of Toshiba (which IIRC bought Hitachi
Global Storage 3.5" when HGST was split up and sold last year) and Seagate
ES series. I'm guessing both have a decent warranty and would be expected
to last.

Side question: anyone tried upgrading a HP Microserver to SAS? I'm guessing
you could just use a SAS RAID card with the right array connector on and
swap the array connector over?

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Mark