Hey there,
So I was able to snag a Dell PowerEdge 2950 from work and take it home. They even gave me 4x 73GB 15k SAS drives to go with it. I've upgraded it to 2 quad core 5345's xeons and 8GB of RAM. Unfortunately
The Server has a perc 5/i SAS RAID card w/ 256MB of RAM.
So I've tried to put sata drives in there using SAS caddy's but it doesn't detect the drives. Then I read online that you have to buy these interposer boards that are 20 bucks a pop plus another 20 for the Satau caddy's making it a total of 40 dollars for a tray. I'm thinking the cost is just ridiculous for a tray.
The reason I want to use SATA is because I already have 3 SATA drives. 640gb,750gb, 1TB.
My question is; is there another way to get SATA drives working on the Dell PowerEdge 2950?
Do I have to upgrade the card to perc 6/i and would that work with the PowerEdge 2950?
Any opinions or thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!
So I was able to snag a Dell PowerEdge 2950 from work and take it home. They even gave me 4x 73GB 15k SAS drives to go with it. I've upgraded it to 2 quad core 5345's xeons and 8GB of RAM. Unfortunately
The Server has a perc 5/i SAS RAID card w/ 256MB of RAM.
So I've tried to put sata drives in there using SAS caddy's but it doesn't detect the drives. Then I read online that you have to buy these interposer boards that are 20 bucks a pop plus another 20 for the Satau caddy's making it a total of 40 dollars for a tray. I'm thinking the cost is just ridiculous for a tray.
The reason I want to use SATA is because I already have 3 SATA drives. 640gb,750gb, 1TB.
My question is; is there another way to get SATA drives working on the Dell PowerEdge 2950?
Do I have to upgrade the card to perc 6/i and would that work with the PowerEdge 2950?
Any opinions or thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!