I have a Dell PowerEdge T330 for personal learning. It came with a 200 GB SATA SSD but has drive bays for 7 other drives. I have installed Ubuntu 18 on the server. According to Dell's spec it can accommodate following types of drives:
2.5” SATA 7.2K
2.5” SATA SSD's
2.5” nearline SAS 7.2K
2.5” SAS 10K HDDs
2.5” SAS 15K HDDs
3.5” Enterprise SATA 7.2K HDDs
3.5” nearline SAS 7.2K HDDs
I want to buy 3-4 more drives mainly to setup a RAID (the server comes with a hardware RAID Controller). Since I already have SSD I would prefer to combine it with an SAS drive. I have following questions:
(1) Where will I get a good price on SAS drives? Since it is a system I use for learning I don't much care about performance or capacity.
(2) Do I have purchase HDD caddy separately to install it in the drive bays?
2.5” SATA 7.2K
2.5” SATA SSD's
2.5” nearline SAS 7.2K
2.5” SAS 10K HDDs
2.5” SAS 15K HDDs
3.5” Enterprise SATA 7.2K HDDs
3.5” nearline SAS 7.2K HDDs
I want to buy 3-4 more drives mainly to setup a RAID (the server comes with a hardware RAID Controller). Since I already have SSD I would prefer to combine it with an SAS drive. I have following questions:
(1) Where will I get a good price on SAS drives? Since it is a system I use for learning I don't much care about performance or capacity.
(2) Do I have purchase HDD caddy separately to install it in the drive bays?