DL380 G5 with Smart Array P400 Card.

[Matt Beckler]

Hi I have a couple questions I hope someone can answer.
We have a DL380 G5 server with the Smart Array P400 card. IT looks like this card will support SATA drives I want to make sure that is correct and also is there a Max size limit on the drives. I did research and it looks like the drives in that server are 2.5" . The server is a diaster recovery for a small company so it is offsite. Currently it has 2 drives in Raid 1+0(boot drive) then 6 drives in raid 5.. I was hoping to replace thoose six 72 gb SAS drives with 6 500 gb Sata drives. Any information would be helpful or if anyone has done this. Thanks

Matt

[KarloChacon · Accepted solution]

hi

yes all the new Smart Array Controllers support both SAS and SATA HDDs like e200, p400 and son on that answer your 1 question

now second one the biggest SATA SFF (2.5) HDD supported by that server is 250GB I don't know if you any other HDD non HP I mean or if someone has tested

Maximum Internal Storage
Hot Plug SAS 1.168TB 8 x 146GB
Hot Plug 2.0TB 8 x 250GB ***

source:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12477_na/12477_na.html

Biggest SATA HDD:
HP 250GB 3G SATA 5.4K SFF ETY HDD 460355-B21

Biggest SAS HDD:
HP 300GB 3G SAS 10K SFF DP ENT HDD
492620-B21

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