The 670 has 2 SATA connectors on the mobo as well as well as the onboard
SCSI. I'd prefer to not use the inbuilt hardware raid. My current
desktop has a single 80GB IDE for /, /boot, swap etc and a pair of 300GB
SATAs for /home (Raid 1 on /dev/md0) on the basis that my data is more
important
On Friday 07 August 2009 16:37:12 Julian Gibson wrote:
The 670 has 2 SATA connectors on the mobo as well as well as the
onboard SCSI.
According to:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ws670/en/ug_en/
Your box has 3x3.5in bays and 3x5.25in bays. So if you don't need 3
optical drives
All
I've acquired a Dell Precision 670 with a pair of 147GB SCSIs. I'm
wanting to remove one of them and add a pair of 1.5TB SATAs in a Raid 1
config. I'll be using SuSE 11.1 and will do a software raid.
The question is therefore... Will this be able to boot off the remaining
SCSI (ie
Julian Gibson wrote:
will the bios want to always boot off the SATAs if it sees them
first.
I'm not 100% sure, but wouldn't this be an option configurable in the
boot order in the BIOS?
Michael
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On 13/06/2007 22:32, Colin McKinnon wrote:
I've just had a Google - the 2950 is kind of small (2U) - and you want all
the
disks internal Putting the disks internally is the only design constraint
you've given - but it is a big problem! Try to rethink this if you can.
Dell PE2950 can
Hi guys,
I am looking at replacing one of my Linux servers here at the moment and
wanted to ask people about their experiences with hardware configuration..
Basically, it will have about a terrabyte or so of space available in the
form of a RAID array, (probably RAID5) and I was wondering if
