Non HP SATA SFF disks on DL380G5?

[V4E]

Anyone have any experience on using non HP SATA SFF disks on DL380G5? Is there a size limitation? What specific disks have you found to work?

[Jan Soska]

Hello,
why do you think of it? Price point? You have no support without HP drives...

according quickspec for your server - http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12559_div/12559_div.HTML#Storage - is 250GB SATA 5.4K max size, but it depends on your SmartArray controller...

Jan

[V4E]

The systems are out of support. We can add 2 third party drives and run raid 0 for less than a single HP drive.

[Jan Soska]

ok, then - update array controler firmware to latest available and buy 1 biggist sff sata drive available and try. Generally, it should work.

Jan

[V4E]

Thanks Jan,

Do you know the link to the latest firmware for the P400?

[Jan Soska]

of course... (hp.com - support - drivers & firmware - type P400, choose link) ... http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=1157689&taskId=135&prodTypeId=329290&prodSeriesId=1157687〈=en&cc=us
there are drivers for all supported system, firmware for all HP branded drives plus latest P400 firmware - 7.18, go ahead.

Jan

[Alex Geroulaitis (ITRC)]

Using 6 pcs of 320GB 7200rpm SFF drives (Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT 320GB 7200 RPM 2.5" SATA) in RAID6 on DL380G5 and P400 for about a year without a hitch. Running Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with a bunch of virtual machines.

[V4E]

Is there a MAX SIZE the P400 controller will support? I am thinking of adding 6 of the Seagate 750GB 7200RPM drive in a Raid 5+1. Model ST9750420AS

[Alex Geroulaitis (ITRC)]

I don't believe there is a max LU size - HP cites 38TB max with 1TB drives - so 1TB drives are certainly supported.

[Jan Soska]

V4E - consider this ST95005620AS - first hybrid drive from seagate, should by REALLY fast and still cheap.

Jan