Proliant or Dell + SSD

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ilmickeyli

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I’m looking for a HP proliant server (dl380 maybe) or a dellthat I can hook up 4-6 SSD drives into (as RAID), but not run them as the OS..

Looking for a fast unit, with atleast 4gb ram.. Maybe I’d just have to get a dl380 and add a sata raid card, not too sure.

Budget is between 2-6, but flexibility is there (have to have money for the ssd drives too)

Can you send me some products that may fit these requirements? Looking to order this soon

Any recommendations are appreciated! Newegg or CDW are the two sites I order from most
 
I know dell 2950's can come in either 6x3.5inch bays or 8x2.5inch bays for hdd's. Then a dell perc raid controller will handle normal sata interface drives no problem.
 
Depending on your form factor size (1u-9u), there are many options out there. HP traditionally carries more higher density drive servers than Dell, especially in the 1-2u categories.
 
I'd go for one of the 55xx Xeon based ones. (Core i7 based) Beyond that it matters not.
 
How much CPU power do you need? The Dell 2970s are cheap. Though you will need to purchase empty drive cages separately.
This price is direct from Dell's website.
PowerEdge 2970: $2221

  • CPU 1: Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2378,4x512K Cache,2.4GHz,1Ghz HyperTransport
  • CPU2: Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2378,4x512K Cache,2.4GHz,1Ghz HyperTransport
  • Memory: 16GB DDR2, 667MHz, 4x4GB, Dual Ranked DIMMs
  • Operating System: No Operating System
  • Backplane: 1x8 Backplane for 2.5-inch Hard Drives
  • Chassis Configuration: Rack Chassis w/Sliding Rapid/Versa Rails and Cable Management Arm,Universal
  • Primary Controller: PERC 6/I, x8 Backplane, Integrated
  • Hard Drive: 80GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
  • 2nd Hard Drive: 80GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
  • POWER SUPPLY: Non-Redundant Power Supply
  • Bezel: Active ID Bezel
  • Network Adapter: Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC[/B]
  • CD/DVD Drive: DVD-ROM Drive, SATA
  • Floppy Drive: No Floppy Drive with Filler Panel
  • Hardware Support Services: 3Yr Basic Hardware Warranty Repair: 5x10 HW-Only, 5x10 NBD Onsite
 
JustLong said:
How much CPU power do you need? The Dell 2970s are cheap. Though you will need to purchase empty drive cages separately.
This price is direct from Dell's website.
PowerEdge 2970: $2221

  • CPU 1: Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2378,4x512K Cache,2.4GHz,1Ghz HyperTransport
  • CPU2: Quad Core AMD Opteron™ 2378,4x512K Cache,2.4GHz,1Ghz HyperTransport
  • Memory: 16GB DDR2, 667MHz, 4x4GB, Dual Ranked DIMMs
  • Operating System: No Operating System
  • Backplane: 1x8 Backplane for 2.5-inch Hard Drives
  • Chassis Configuration: Rack Chassis w/Sliding Rapid/Versa Rails and Cable Management Arm,Universal
  • Primary Controller: PERC 6/I, x8 Backplane, Integrated
  • Hard Drive: 80GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
  • 2nd Hard Drive: 80GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
  • POWER SUPPLY: Non-Redundant Power Supply
  • Bezel: Active ID Bezel
  • Network Adapter: Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC[/B]
  • CD/DVD Drive: DVD-ROM Drive, SATA
  • Floppy Drive: No Floppy Drive with Filler Panel
  • Hardware Support Services: 3Yr Basic Hardware Warranty Repair: 5x10 HW-Only, 5x10 NBD Onsite
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Is Dell selling empty drive sleds again? I know a few years ago they stopped selling them. You had to buy them through 3rd parties or buy 80gig SATA drives with the sled. Pissed my company off enough to switch to HP.
 
shabazkilla said:
Is Dell selling empty drive sleds again? I know a few years ago they stopped selling them. You had to buy them through 3rd parties or buy 80gig SATA drives with the sled. Pissed my company off enough to switch to HP.
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I've never had an issue with obtaining bare sleds.
 
We had a ton of DL380 G5s at work. They were pretty darn quick with dual 3ghz quads and 32gb of RAM. They have 8 x 2.5" hot-swap bays in the front as well, so you should have plenty of room for storage. Maybe I'm just partial to them because I had good experiences with them (and HP's support was great).
 
shabazkilla said:
Is Dell selling empty drive sleds again? I know a few years ago they stopped selling them. You had to buy them through 3rd parties or buy 80gig SATA drives with the sled. Pissed my company off enough to switch to HP.
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I haven't had to buy one in 7 years so I wouldn't know.
 
Thanks, Shab.. I'm trying to find the drive cages.. Might just email them.. Thats a great config.

So SSD drives will work fine as secondary drives on this? Just use the 2 80's for OS and SSD for my other needs?
 
Why the 7.2k drives when the 73gb 10k sas drives included? would that take the slot for the ssd? need to go sata -> sas?

they said they dont say the cages because they dont support non-supported drives..

what a joke.

i might just buy some extra drives, sata ones, and put the SSD in there.. would that be fine? lawl universal sata or normal sata?

sorry i'm kinda new to sas/ssd etc
 
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I think this will be it and he'll get me 3 cages for the SSD's

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ilmickeyli said:
I think this will be it and he'll get me 3 cages for the SSD's

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You might want to bump that to 24GB so you can have triple channel memory.
Also do you need 2.8Ghz? The 2.66ghz R710 screams.

Also just an FYI the Intel 80GB X25-M works fine in the R710 I have Eight installed and it doesn't complain about unsupported drives.
 
More memory is better, especially if you are going to host VM's.

And those new Xeons scream! they walk away from everything else that even look in their direction (in the same price range)
 
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