Hi there, Can anyone tell me if the drives on the PowerEdge 2650 were hot-swap as standard, please?
This review <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,31750,00.asp> says that: "Featuring ... hot-swappable hard drives, redundant power supplies... An integrated PERC3/Di dual-channel RAID controller ... is optional, or you can configure the 2650 with a choice of two- or four-channel RAID cards or a dual-channel SCSI adapter card. ... two redundant 500-watt power supplies are standard, although you can opt for a single nonredundant power supply." From that it's not really clear to me whether or not hot-swap was a feature of all the possible RAID card choices, or just some of them. Does anyone know what chipset was used on the PERC3 & for the other RAID controller options? I'm assuming that RAID cards are the sort of thing that are still supported in the Linux kernel even when they're 5+ years old. Does that seem reasonable? There is one of these available locally to me, on eBay for (perhaps) not too much money, and it might just hep a scratch I have that needs itching. I appreciate the 2650 isn't a current model and requires Ultra3 SCSI drives, but neither performance nor storage capacity are an issue for this application. Thanks in advance for any comments, Stroller. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
