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Use of 2.5 SATA Drives For Servers
Is there 2.5 SATA drive whose use is recommended for a server? I have an
industrial rackmount computer with SCSI drives currently that leaves no room for the cable connections behind the drives. It's HOURS of work to remove and replace a drive. I want something that gives us a lot more room to work behind the drives. -- Will |
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Use of 2.5 SATA Drives For Servers
Maybe the Western Digital Velociraptor.
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Use of 2.5 SATA Drives For Servers
Previously Will wrote:
Is there 2.5 SATA drive whose use is recommended for a server? Yes, but they are hard to get. I have an industrial rackmount computer with SCSI drives currently that leaves no room for the cable connections behind the drives. It's HOURS of work to remove and replace a drive. I want something that gives us a lot more room to work behind the drives. 2.5" driver for server use are typically used in blade servers. I am not aware of a source on the general market. You may get them as spare parts from blade server suppliers. Arno |
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Will wrote:
Is there 2.5 SATA drive whose use is recommended for a server? I have an industrial rackmount computer with SCSI drives currently that leaves no room for the cable connections behind the drives. It's HOURS of work to remove and replace a drive. I want something that gives us a lot more room to work behind the drives. What kind of chump server is THAT? -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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Altigen voicemail server. It's a vendor supplied "integrated" solution
that uses an older ISA / PCI single-slot computer design, so you don't get as much flexibility as you might like on choice of the enclosure. -- Will "CJT" wrote in message ... Will wrote: Is there 2.5 SATA drive whose use is recommended for a server? I have an industrial rackmount computer with SCSI drives currently that leaves no room for the cable connections behind the drives. It's HOURS of work to remove and replace a drive. I want something that gives us a lot more room to work behind the drives. What kind of chump server is THAT? -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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"Arno Wagner" wrote in message
... Previously Will wrote: Is there 2.5 SATA drive whose use is recommended for a server? Yes, but they are hard to get. I have an industrial rackmount computer with SCSI drives currently that leaves no room for the cable connections behind the drives. It's HOURS of work to remove and replace a drive. I want something that gives us a lot more room to work behind the drives. 2.5" driver for server use are typically used in blade servers. I am not aware of a source on the general market. You may get them as spare parts from blade server suppliers. If you have a Compaq or Dell part number for the 2.5 SATA drives they use in their blades, that would work as well. -- Will |
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Previously Will wrote:
Altigen voicemail server. It's a vendor supplied "integrated" solution that uses an older ISA / PCI single-slot computer design, so you don't get as much flexibility as you might like on choice of the enclosure. Hmm. If it is not a high-performance application, ordinary notebook drives may actually do fine. They are at the performance level that 3.5" SATA drives were 2-3 years ago. Running them 24/7 is also not really that much of an issue. Arno -- Will "CJT" wrote in message ... Will wrote: Is there 2.5 SATA drive whose use is recommended for a server? I have an industrial rackmount computer with SCSI drives currently that leaves no room for the cable connections behind the drives. It's HOURS of work to remove and replace a drive. I want something that gives us a lot more room to work behind the drives. What kind of chump server is THAT? -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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So in that case maybe a 2.5 SAS solution would better meet the combined
requirements of small size and high performance. -- Will "Arno Wagner" wrote in message ... Previously Will wrote: Altigen voicemail server. It's a vendor supplied "integrated" solution that uses an older ISA / PCI single-slot computer design, so you don't get as much flexibility as you might like on choice of the enclosure. Hmm. If it is not a high-performance application, ordinary notebook drives may actually do fine. They are at the performance level that 3.5" SATA drives were 2-3 years ago. Running them 24/7 is also not really that much of an issue. Arno -- Will "CJT" wrote in message ... Will wrote: Is there 2.5 SATA drive whose use is recommended for a server? I have an industrial rackmount computer with SCSI drives currently that leaves no room for the cable connections behind the drives. It's HOURS of work to remove and replace a drive. I want something that gives us a lot more room to work behind the drives. What kind of chump server is THAT? -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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Previously Will wrote:
So in that case maybe a 2.5 SAS solution would better meet the combined requirements of small size and high performance. Your application does not strike me as high-performance. But if it is, then yes, 2.5" SAS would be the way to go, I think. Arno -- Will "Arno Wagner" wrote in message ... Previously Will wrote: Altigen voicemail server. It's a vendor supplied "integrated" solution that uses an older ISA / PCI single-slot computer design, so you don't get as much flexibility as you might like on choice of the enclosure. Hmm. If it is not a high-performance application, ordinary notebook drives may actually do fine. They are at the performance level that 3.5" SATA drives were 2-3 years ago. Running them 24/7 is also not really that much of an issue. Arno -- Will "CJT" wrote in message ... Will wrote: Is there 2.5 SATA drive whose use is recommended for a server? I have an industrial rackmount computer with SCSI drives currently that leaves no room for the cable connections behind the drives. It's HOURS of work to remove and replace a drive. I want something that gives us a lot more room to work behind the drives. What kind of chump server is THAT? -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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Arno Wagner wrote:
Hmm. If it is not a high-performance application, ordinary notebook drives may actually do fine. They are at the performance For performance, just take this little thing out of its 3.5" adapter. Some say it is the fastest drive around. http://techreport.com/articles.x/14964 --- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org http://antiwar.com Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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