CentOS - Nov 2017 - low end file server with h/w RAID - recommendations

m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> hw wrote:
>> Richard Zimmerman wrote:
>>> hw wrote:
>>>> Next question: you want RAID, how much storage do you need?
Will 4 or 8
>>>> 3.5" drives be enough (DO NOT GET crappy 2.5" drives
- they're *much*
>>>> more expensive than the 3.5" drives, and >smaller disk
space. For the
>>>> price of a 1TB 2.5", I can get at least a 4TB WD Red.
>>>
>>> I will second Marks comments here. Yes, 2.5" drive enterprise
drives
>>> have been an issue. +1 for the WD Red drives, so far 3.5" w/
2tb and 4tb
>>> drives, ZERO issues. I've had good luck with HGST NAS drives
too.
>>> Unfortunately, that will come to an end soon (With WD owning HGST).
>>
>> Most servers can fit only 2.5" disks these days.  I keep wondering
what
>> everyone is doing about storage.
>
> Sorry, that depends 100% on what you *order*. We tell our resellers that
> we want 3.5" drives, that's what we get. All the vendors,
intluding Dell,
> and the smaller ones, online you can configure what you want, to price it
> out, and they *all* offer 3.5" drives.
>
> The only 2.5" drives that we're ok with getting are the two
internal SSD's
> for RAID 1 for the o/s, and nothing else.
>
> You may not be talking to the right sales folks.
That only goes when you buy new.  Look at what you can get used, and you?ll
see that there?s basically nothing that fits 3.5" drives.

On 11/3/2017 1:25 AM, hw wrote:
> That only goes when you buy new.? Look at what you can get used, and 
> you?ll
> see that there?s basically nothing that fits 3.5" drives. 

I bought a used HP DL180g6 a couple years ago, 12 x 3.5" on the front 
panel, and 2 more in back, came with all 14 HP trays, dual X5650.?? its 
a personal/charity server sitting at a coloc here in town.?? I have 
several of the same model server at work with 25 x 2.5" drives (and 
x5660 and more ram), they are workhorses.



-- 
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 11/3/2017 1:25 AM, hw wrote:
>> That only goes when you buy new.  Look at what you can get used, and
you?ll
>> see that there?s basically nothing that fits 3.5" drives.
>
>
> I bought a used HP DL180g6 a couple years ago, 12 x 3.5" on the front
panel, and 2 more in back, came with all 14 HP trays, dual X5650.   its a
personal/charity server sitting at a coloc here in town.   I have several of the
same model server at work with 25 x 2.5" drives (and x5660 and more ram),
they are workhorses.
A couple years ago, yes.  Now, not anymore.