Server HDD replacement suggestions

[Jekub]

I bought a HP Proliant DL380 G5 with 4x 72Gb 10K Sas drives. Could really do with far more storage but don't exactly want to be paying £200+ for a 600gb drive. What can I buy that'll give me at least 1Tb of storage and fit in the 2U case it's in? Honestly don't care if drives are hotswappable or not, would be great if they are but that may well be a luxury I cannot afford. Also could someone actually tell me what 10K sas means? I'm assuming it's to do with read/write speeds but I have no idea.

Thanks

[deWaardt]

I think that server will fit even SATA drives

I'm not sure, but if it does you can use WD reds.

[Jekub]

bays in the front are SAS only as far as I can tell, can't tell if the sleds are custom to HP or would fit any 2.5" SAS drive though

[Eniqmatic]

33 minutes ago, Jekub said:

I bought a HP Proliant DL380 G5 with 4x 72Gb 10K Sas drives. Could really do with far more storage but don't exactly want to be paying £200+ for a 600gb drive. What can I buy that'll give me at least 1Tb of storage and fit in the 2U case it's in? Honestly don't care if drives are hotswappable or not, would be great if they are but that may well be a luxury I cannot afford. Also could someone actually tell me what 10K sas means? I'm assuming it's to do with read/write speeds but I have no idea.

Thanks

It will take any 2.5" SATA drive, providing there is sata ports available on the motherboard and you may need to remove the backplane. Check the backplane does not take SATA's though. It's been a while since I've seen one of these.

 

10K SAS is for 10K RPM (same as you get a 7200RPM SATA hard drive. SAS is an alternate connection to SATA.

[Eniqmatic]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SATA-22Pin-7-15-pin-Male-plug-to-SAS-29Pin-Female-jack-Plug-Convertor-Adapter-/371502843964?hash=item567f4b883c:g:DiMAAOSwfZ1WZO-h

 

Something like this may work? Worth a shot for just a few $. It may not though, never tried. Be aware if this does work, your drives will not clip fully in on the sled. They will probably be secure enough and you said you weren't too bothered, just to make you aware.

[Jekub]

Have opened it up, no sata ports in sight. Thanks for the suggestion with the converters though, will probably go for that if I can't find reasonably priced. I could replace the SAS backplate for a SATA one right???? If they exist that is.

 

[Eniqmatic]

3 minutes ago, Jekub said:

Have opened it up, no sata ports in sight. Thanks for the suggestion with the converters though, will probably go for that if I can't find reasonably priced. I could replace the SAS backplate for a SATA one right???? If they exist that is.

 

Yes if HP had it as an option for that server then you could try to do that.

[Eniqmatic]

Actually just thought, can you post a picture of your backplane?

[Jekub]

This?
 

[Electronics Wizardy]

47 minutes ago, Eniqmatic said:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SATA-22Pin-7-15-pin-Male-plug-to-SAS-29Pin-Female-jack-Plug-Convertor-Adapter-/371502843964?hash=item567f4b883c:g:DiMAAOSwfZ1WZO-h

 

Something like this may work? Worth a shot for just a few $. It may not though, never tried. Be aware if this does work, your drives will not clip fully in on the sled. They will probably be secure enough and you said you weren't too bothered, just to make you aware.

Don't use that, its made for laptop dvd drives.

 

You can put any 2.5in sas/sata hdd in it. Just put some cheap 1tb laptop hdds in it.

[Electronics Wizardy]

30 minutes ago, Jekub said:

Have opened it up, no sata ports in sight. Thanks for the suggestion with the converters though, will probably go for that if I can't find reasonably priced. I could replace the SAS backplate for a SATA one right???? If they exist that is.

 

You can put any 2.5 in hdd in it (sas/sata) just get some 1tb laptop hdds for cheap storage. Sas drives work on sas backplanes.

[Jekub]

I have a SAS backplane so why would I buy a SATA HDD?? surely they aren't cross compatible?

[Jekub]

Oooo that's cool, they are cross compatible! that's lovely

 

[leadeater]

As @Electronics Wizardy said, SAS controllers are cross compatible with SATA disks. Also WD has 2.5" models of the Red series (WD10JFCX/WD7500BFCX) so see if you can find a couple of those. The down side to 2.5" is they cost more per GB and don't come in larger sizes.

 

6 hours ago, Eniqmatic said:

Actually just thought, can you post a picture of your backplane?

I think @Eniqmatic just remembered about SAS/SATA cross compatibility just then .

[brwainer]

I have the DL380 G5 and can confirm that it has accepted every SATA drive I have ever put in it, including several 1TB WD REDs. All you need to get is drive trays for your drives, which are available on amazon or ebay for ~$10.

[Eniqmatic]

10 hours ago, leadeater said:

As @Electronics Wizardy said, SAS controllers are cross compatible with SATA disks. Also WD has 2.5" models of the Red series (WD10JFCX/WD7500BFCX) so see if you can find a couple of those. The down side to 2.5" is they cost more per GB and don't come in larger sizes.

 

I think @Eniqmatic just remembered about SAS/SATA cross compatibility just then .

Indeed!