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Adding Sata drives to dl380 g7 in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[โ€“] papelitofeliz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I've read about the G7 having problems with hardware that it does not recognize. Fans increasing to 100%

The cage exposes 5 satas plus I think 2 Sata power supply. I think that the pcie hba sas + sas to Sata cables solution is the best way to go. It should allow future disks expansions pretty easily.

Adding Sata drives to dl380 g7 in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[โ€“] papelitofeliz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Wow you seem to know your stuff, I'll keep looking for the 6bay enclosure.

I'm not finding much from where I am from, but found a guy selling a really cheap MSA30 with 150gb disks on all bays. There are so many acronyms.

Do you think this would work or does it require specific disks? I have no idea how it interfaces with the server, it seems to have a network interface?

Sorry If i'm being too dense, enterprise stuff is complicated and usually not compatible

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Adding Sata drives to dl380 g7 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

I just got a dl380 G7 for free, with one processor. And 6 free 2.5 drive slots (2 of them are in use). I want to move my services to the new server hardware and repurpose my old media server but I'm a bit out of my depth, never worked with this type of hardware before.

  1. I didn't exactly check what processor is installed. Do you think it will be able to handle transcoding?

  2. I have a sata drive case with 5 3tb 3.5 HDDs which I used to use as storage for my media server. How would I go about connecting it? I'm happy with software raid.

I'm thinking about geting this HBA (sc08e), a couple of sas <-> sata cables and an external power supply. But it is clunky.

I also read about maybe using cable connectors for the drives in the dl380. Maybe like this?

I love the idea of having a DAS but don't want to spend that amount of money. Will keep my eyes open for one tho.

Thanks!!