DL 380 (no Gx)

[Domenico ROTOLO]

Hi all!

I was proposed to deploy a system DL 380
(no G2,G3, ecc)

with:

2 x 18 GB
3 x 36 GB in Raid 5

In a configurator I found only 18 GB HD for the DL 380, so my question is:

is it possible the HDs configuration above?

Thanks a lot in advance!
Best regards,
Domenico

[Steven Clementi]

Domenico:

The original Dl380 was a 3U Prolaint Server. Stand configuration only allowed 4 SCSI Wide Ultra 3 drives. There was an optional drive cage to add an addition 2 drives in the front with the loss of your 5.25in internal drive slots. (as far as I can remember, it was technically the DL380G1, but was never labeled "G1", rather it was labeled DL380RO1)

Now that we are past that, I do not see why you could not use 36GB drives in the box. Most drives are backwards compatible and will operate at any previous speed. What I mean is.. a U320 drive will also operate at U160, U3, U2, Wide-Ultra, etc. speeds dependsong on the Smart Array/SCSI HBA you have.

The configurator probably doesn't know about newer drives and/or might see them as not available for use with the DL380.

Looking at the quickspecs...

" http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/north_america_10-2001/10495_na.PDF "

... support for up to at least 72GB drives is available. (I pulled the October 2001 quickspecs so 146's would probably work as well.)


Steven

[Domenico ROTOLO]

Thanks a lot for the ready answer, Steven!

Have a nice weekend.

d

[Steven Clementi]

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Stveen

[Domenico ROTOLO]

I was redirected to an update system specifications page,
where I found the answer I needed.