January 24, 201313 yr Would an HP Proliant DL580 be suitable for unRAID? I have a line on a cheap barebones one (single CPU). Lots of drive bays. I have an M1015 that I can use in it, but wonder if I'll have problems with 3TB drives?
January 24, 201313 yr Would an HP Proliant DL580 be suitable for unRAID? I have a line on a cheap barebones one (single CPU). Lots of drive bays. I have an M1015 that I can use in it, but wonder if I'll have problems with 3TB drives? That is really to vague. the DL580 comes in about 60 configurations going back 7 generations going all the way back to before they bought compaq .. chances are, it does not take standard sata disks though.. the older ones are SCSI and the newer ones tend to be 2.5" SAS. A few might have had a SATA bay added as an upgrade option.
January 24, 201313 yr Author I should have been more accurate. This is a DL580 G5. One quad core xeon E7330 processor @ 2.4GHz (1066MHz bus;6MB l3 cache); 16G ram. Comes with 6 146Gb 10k drives (these are SAS I think). For the drive controller, it has a "SAS P400 SAS RAID CONTROLLER W/ 512MB BBWC". That controller is supports both SAS and SATA at SATA II speeds (http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/smartarrayp400/index.html). I also have an m1015 that would give me SATA III for some drives. SO, thinking this might work...
January 24, 201313 yr I should have been more accurate. This is a DL580 G5. One quad core xeon E7330 processor @ 2.4GHz (1066MHz bus;6MB l3 cache); 16G ram. Comes with 6 146Gb 10k drives (these are SAS I think). For the drive controller, it has a "SAS P400 SAS RAID CONTROLLER W/ 512MB BBWC". That controller is supports both SAS and SATA at SATA II speeds (http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/smartarrayp400/index.html). I also have an m1015 that would give me SATA III for some drives. SO, thinking this might work... The P400 is unsupported in unRAID. It never even sees it. Also, I hope you have a basement or somewhere to put it as a Dl580 (any variation) is extremely loud!
January 25, 201313 yr Author So... maybe not a good choice for unRAID then, given p400 issues, sff drives, and noise. Given the size, I would have put it in the basement. Maybe instead it should go into the detached garage. I knew I'd find a use for that underground ethernet cable I ran there last year.
January 25, 201313 yr So... maybe not a good choice for unRAID then, given p400 issues, sff drives, and noise. Given the size, I would have put it in the basement. Maybe instead it should go into the detached garage. I knew I'd find a use for that underground ethernet cable I ran there last year. As long as its air conditioned. That thing puts out some serious heat.
January 25, 201313 yr If you want to want to run a non-storage server platform, this might be a good choice for a lab environment. For a storage server, especially unRAID, I would recommend you put your money into something more appropriate..
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