Hi, I'm planning on purchasing a couple of 11G servers (prob R210 / R310 / R410) for a client, and was wondering which 1-2TB drives Dell are shipping with these boxes?
I know they've previously been shipping Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB drives, but I've no idea which vendor/model 2TB drives they're using? Also: If you order the "On-board SATA Controller, Min. 1 Max. 4 SATA Only Cabled Drives" type options (which is what I'm planning on doing given all the bollocks I've had from LSI controllers recently - give me a plain old just-works-and-fast Intel ICH10 any day) - do the servers actually ship with all the cables and mounting hardware for adding bare drives to non-populated non-hotswap drive bays? ... i.e. does the R310 with that option selected plug just a single SATA drive actually ship with the brackets and cables to fit a bare 3rd party SSD of my choice, such as the Intel ones at a later date (I realise that I might need to supply a suitable 2.5" to 3.5" bracket, and maybe a few screws myself), or would I have to hunt around the net at great length/expense to do that (or just buy the min-size SATA drives with the server, and discard them when I needed to put in the SSD)? The online configurator for the R410 no longer seems to have the "on-board sata controller" option - anyone know if it's still actually available (it definitely used to be there, and is in the R410 technical guide book)? Thanks! Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 _______________________________________________ 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
