| Dell PowerEdge 2950 D22 | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Owner | Space |
| Status | Working |
| Location | Server room |
| Tool | No |
| Tool category | |
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Description
One of the spare PwoerEdge 2950's marked D22 could be interesting for storage purposes, but there's some restrictions/things to consider.
Specs
- Dual 1.6GHz Xeon quad core
- Perc 5/i connected to 6 drive bays (SAS or SATA, see below)
- BIOS version 1.37 (we should probably update)
Perc 5/i, drives and RAID levels
No JBOD
The card doesn't do JBOD. It's running Dell firmware. There are reports that running generic LSI firmware will result in JBOD capabilities. First attempts to reflash failed (firmware flash software could not find the card).
Hardware RAID
We could do hardware RAID since we've got enough spare parts (should be tested, stick disks in another PE 2950 with same RAID controller, preferably with same firmware). The Dell firmware can do following RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50.
Disks
There are 6 500GB SAS drives in there. The card does take SATA drives (with or without adapter card, of which we have 3) but SAS and SATA cannot be mixed in the same virtual disk. This means that we either have to get more SAS drives or we should go all SATA from start.
Useful links
[1], it has some dead links and info about 5/i and 6/i, but it's a nice read.