Old Server, New Harddrives?

Hardware Hub Storage
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So i bought a old HP hp proliant dl380 g5 currently it has 8 2.5inch 146GB HDD in raid 10 in it.

raid 10 because the speeds sucks so mutch its to dam slow in raid 5....

the raid controller in it is a** hp p400**. can this thing handle 1.5 or 2 TB drives?

and on a side note i might buy a MSA20 **with a **Dual Smart Array Controller 6400
that wil suport 3.5inch drives. but wil i be able to put 2 or 3 or more TB drives in that?

thanks for helping me out!
egoon

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On the spec sheet is says

Up to 38TB of total storage with 38 x 1TB 3.5" SATA MDL HDD

So I'm not sure if it supports drives over 1TB.

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witch controller are you talking about?

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You can find spec sheets easily, just Google hp dl380 g5 spec sheet. Also spinning disk are slow, if you are running on bare metal you probably get 250MB/s at least I do with 7 10k rpm drives in raid five, my vm's get like 600+ thanks to caching

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http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04111741.pdf

Up to 38TB of total storage with 38 x 1TB 3.5" SATA MDL HDD

so i cant use 1.5TB? but can i use 1TB 2.5inch?

http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04282980.pdf

Up to four Ultra320 SCSI channels, supporting up to 56 disk drives
Up to 16.8TB of storage per PCI slot

whats the max capacity per drive i can use?

http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04283164.pdf

Storage Capacity - The Modular Smart Array 20 cabinet supports up to twelve SATA 3G hard
drives, for a maximum of 12 TB of storage capacity using HP 1TB SATA

so with this and the controller (the 6400) i can use a max of 12 1 TB drives?

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bump

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bump

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SAS controller, blah blah, You can use SAS or SATA drives.

As for the drive size, it is limited to 2.2TB (like all LSI 1000 series chipsets) anything larger will appear as 2.2TB.

Specifically the P400 (and P800) are based off the LSI 1087, so you can take a gander at the spec sheet if you are so inclined.

As for the MSA20, I believe this is also bound by the same limitations to only 2TB drives.

If you want to use larger than 2TB drives, take a look into RAID cards based off of the LSI SAS2008 (or higher) chipsets.

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thanks a lot !

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for those intrested later on:

i bought 1TB harddrives (sinds the server only has 2.5inch slots that about the biggest you can get )

and they are working fine ;)