Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

James Crawford jrefl5 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 18:51:35 MST 2012


 >
 >My first thought was a NAS server however to take full advantage of 
hardware RAID I would need to find a second daughter card to take fully 
 >use the dual channel backplane and controller it will work as one 
channel but just slower. Also since the drives are 1 - old, 2 - small in 
size, and 3 - >different sizes they don't really lend much for a quality 
RAID. Buying larger Ultrascsi disks (320 GBO) or higher is very cost 
prohibitive.

      Check AZ State surplus, I just wiped a bunch of SCSI Disks that we 
forwarded to them.
James C


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