A400 9000 A5570-62019

[Toby Ragsdale]

All,

Im looking for a external storage solution for this box. It has two internal bays filled with 72g drives. I have a tape drive and DVD off the ultra 2 scsi.

I talked to my usual hardware vendor, and they cant help, say its too old. The servers about three years old!

Any help would be welcome.

TBR

[Jesse Dougherty]

Cheapest is the A3312A HA array with your choice of 8 x 9GB, 18GB, 36GB, or 4 x 180GB disk drives.. you'll need to get an A4800A FWD card for the A400 to use that array... the A3312A's are all over ebay, we have some for .01 cents

[Jesse Dougherty]

or you can use the Sure Store SC10 arrays that hold 10 x 18GB, 36GB, 73GB, and or 147GB, these ones are 10k rpm as opposed to the A3312A HA drives which are 7200 RPM. Your A400 actually has a LVD connection so you wouldn't need an add-on card to attach that array. The arrays are about 400 bucks and the drives are ebay also. A5596A & A5627A

[Jesse Dougherty]

I didnt see that you were using your Ultra-2 Port so if you did the SC10 array you would need to get either a A5149A or A5150A Ultra-2 card, either will run you about 300 bucks

[Chris Vail]

You might consider using up one of your expansion slots and putting in a 5158A fiber channel controller. With that you can start building a SAN, or just purchase any of several fiber-attached drive bays. Elderly SAN stuff starts at $1000 on Ebay. There's lots of options when you expand beyond the internal storage. I've always been impressed with the SC10--the fiber version of the FC10.

You didn't mention your budget, but the A400 is fairly flexible if you can drop some money on it.

Chris


Chris

[Toby Ragsdale]

Thanks all,

I will look based on the suggestions.

Any vendors anyone would recomend? I buy most of my stuff through Insight, their HP person was the one to give the "too old" bit. I dont mind buying through eBay, but would rather a known vendor.

TBR

[Jesse Dougherty]

yea me at www.cypress-tech.com or 727-557-0911

Jesse