Comment on Adding Sata drives to dl380 g7
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
dl380-g7 is some really old stuff. 1st gen westmere. not very power efficient for the performance. there’s no hardware encoding (qsv with encoding started with some 2nd gen).
how well it can do software encoding would depend on the cpu. but don’t expect too much, and nothing more demanding than h264 avc at reasonable settings. you’d need a newer video card with hardware encoding for hevc, av1 or anything like that.
iirc there was a 6bay 3.5in option for those, and that cage/backplane might be available somewhere.
papelitofeliz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
the only 6bay lff cage for it i found online after a quick search was over $400usd.
as others mentioned, msa30 is scsi (yuk). along those lines, you’d want the msa60 which is sas/sata, plus somewhere on the server to connect it to. probably not cheap.
but i really don’t think it’s worth putting a whole lot of time or money into a 15 year box… at least not anything that can’t be used in or with newer stuff later.
i’d probably just grab some 2-5tb 2.5in hdd for media storage and use those before i bought something specific for that old hardware.