Extra disks on N-Class

[Sanjay Tailor_1]

Hello all,

I have a N-class machine with two internal disks. I also have a SAN attached storage. I would like to add more "local" disks to this system. This is to test and implement "hot" backup for Oracle. Instead of using expensive SAN disks I thought we could use local cheap disks.

I looked at the specs for the N class and discovered that it only supports 2 internal disks!!!

I have two questions:

1) Just to make sure, does the N-class only support 2 internal disks? I already have 2 disks for root.

2) If I can only have 2 internal disks, can someone recommend / suggest a suitable external disk ( not sure of correct terminology ) system / array. At the moment I have only requirement for about 146GB storage, of course with mirroring to provide redundancy.

Any other help / advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Sanjay.

[Pedro Cirne]

Hi,

You may check this for available parts:

http://www.partsurfer.hp.com/cgi-bin/spi/main

You may also check N-Class information on:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00352566

Enjoy :)

Pedro

[Leif Halvarsson_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi
External entry level storage system:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/ds2120/index.html

Have you checked if there is any free storage bays on your server ?

[Pete Randall]

Sanjay,

Perhaps something like this:

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/ds2120/index.html


or this:

http://www.hp.com/products1/storage/products/disk_arrays/disksystems/ds2405/index.html


Pete

[Mahesh Kumar Malik]

Hi Sanjay

Suggest to connect external disk storage with RAID controller as per following specs

A5856A NetRAID-4si four channel Ultra2 SCSI disk array controller - PCI board with two internal 68 Pin high density and four external 68 pin very high density connectors

Regards
Mahesh

[Patrick Wallek]

If you don't mind non-HP hardware:
http://www.adtx.com/us/p_series.html

We got one of these with 6 x 120GB drives and it cost us less than $5,000.

[Sanjay Tailor_1]

Hello,

Thank you all for your replies.

It has been quite helpful.

Does anyone know the approx. pricing for the DS 2120 HP storage system?

Thanks,

Sanjay.

[Patrick Wallek]

Have some fun with the HP Enterprise Configurator:
http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/

For the disk click on "configure" under the "HP Storageworks" section.

[Pete Randall]

Sanjay,

According to this site, the base price is under $850.00:

http://www.buyersedge.com/Product/prodDesc.asp?XOS=3386719&pageView=1&iDZ=0


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Sanjay,

Actually, here's an official HP site:

http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product.asp?sku=2542299&jumpid=ex_r2910_dealtimesmb/accessories

Apparently it is $995 for the cabinet itself and then you have to add the drives to it.



Pete

[Pete Randall]

And - here's a 146GB drive for it for $1767.86 (look for the A7530A):

http://www.isinstock.com/SV004179000220.html


Pete

[Sanjay Tailor_1]

Thanks for all your replies, very helpful.