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DO NOT buy the newer HPE DL20 gen9 or ML10 gen9 servers then (especially if using CentOS 6.x) I don't use hardware raid (mdadm for the win!) so cannot speak to that. DL20, bought it on a stock 'B' sale. Great price. Works well on Windows. HPE doesn't sell hard drive trays, etc. You pretty much have to buy thei...

I'm just about to build a new server and I'm looking for recommendations on what hardware to use. I'm happy with either a brand name, or building my own, but would like a hardware RAID controller to run a pair of disks as RAID1 that is actually compatible with and manageable through Linux. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Gary

...ht a DL380 gen9 say five months ago and totally happy with it. In fairness, its running Server 2012 r2 too but I didn't run into the hardware gotchas I did on the other stuff. It just seems HPE skimped on their lower end stuff and CentOS 6.x doesn't play well. This whole incident with the DL20 JUST happened. It's (finally) been spinning Server 2012 r2 for about a week now. It was a long 5 week process just to get to to this answer. I haven't had the time to research out what my next buys are going to be. I'm listening as well if someone has a suggestion. Honestly, I'm l...

hw wrote: > Richard Zimmerman wrote: >> DO NOT buy the newer HPE DL20 gen9 or ML10 gen9 servers then (especially >> if using CentOS 6.x) > > What would you suggest as alternative, something from Dell? Yep, Dell's are good. And I do *not* want to buy from HP, because their support is nothing like good. And once you run out the warranty, they don't...

...ht a DL380 gen9 say five months ago and totally happy with it. In fairness, its running Server 2012 r2 too but I didn't run into the hardware gotchas I did on the other stuff. It just seems HPE skimped on their lower end stuff and CentOS 6.x doesn't play well. This whole incident with the DL20 JUST happened. It's (finally) been spinning Server 2012 r2 for about a week now. It was a long 5 week process just to get to to this answer. I haven't had the time to research out what my next buys are going to be. I'm listening as well if someone has a suggestion. Honestly, I'm l...

hw wrote: > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> hw wrote: >>> Richard Zimmerman wrote: >>>> DO NOT buy the newer HPE DL20 gen9 or ML10 gen9 servers then >>>> (especially >>>> if using CentOS 6.x) >>> <snip> >> And I do *not* want to buy from HP, because their >> support is nothing like good. > > Indeed, I wouldn?t buy HP new. They don?t even give you a price fo...

Richard Zimmerman wrote: > DO NOT buy the newer HPE DL20 gen9 or ML10 gen9 servers then (especially if using CentOS 6.x) What would you suggest as alternative, something from Dell?

m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > hw wrote: >> Richard Zimmerman wrote: >>> DO NOT buy the newer HPE DL20 gen9 or ML10 gen9 servers then (especially >>> if using CentOS 6.x) >> >> What would you suggest as alternative, something from Dell? > > Yep, Dell's are good. That?s good to hear. > And I do *not* want to buy from HP, because their > support is nothing like g...

>Most servers can fit only 2.5" disks these days. I keep wondering what everyone is doing about storage. The DL20 gen9 I bought was setup LFF (3.5") The DL380 gen9 could be either SFF (2.5) or LFF. I had to buy SFF for our new server due I was told to spec / build it exact to vendor recommendation. To better? Answer this. Agreed, I'm not a fanboy of 2.5" stuff in enterprise equipment. To me a b...

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,

On Thu, November 2, 2017 11:18 am, hw wrote: > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> hw wrote: >>> Richard Zimmerman wrote: >>>> DO NOT buy the newer HPE DL20 gen9 or ML10 gen9 servers then >>>> (especially >>>> if using CentOS 6.x) >>> >>> What would you suggest as alternative, something from Dell? >> >> Yep, Dell's are good. > > That??s good to hear. > >> And I do *not* want to bu...