[wplug] OT: IDE drives and PowerEdge 2300?

[Ryan Brown]

You can get the trays and drives for poweredge servers on ebay (brand new)
for much less.

If the 2300 is anything like the 2650 or 2850s (these are rack mounts, I am
not sure on towers) - they have the SCSI backpane installed so it would be
much more convenient to stick with SCSI.

How important is your data and how fast do you want the drives to be? Sounds
like IDE will be fine since it is a standby but I personally would stick
with the SCSI.



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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:18 PM
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Subject: [wplug] OT: IDE drives and PowerEdge 2300?


I was just quoted $530+ by Dell for adding two 73GB SCSI hard drives with
trays to an old PowerEdge 2300 machine.

Are there any significant disadvantages to adding IDE drives and an IDE
card instead of the SCSI drives?

This machine would serve as a stand-by file server...

Janos Dohanics

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