Comment on Adding Sata drives to dl380 g7
papelitofeliz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks agoWow 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.