On 2019-04-13, John Long <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:05:29 -0000 (UTC) > Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2019-04-11, John Long <[email protected]> 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.
