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July 14th, 2011 16:00
Using larger drives in PowerEdge SC440
I have a PowerEdge SC440, which I'd like to convert to a Windows Home Server 2011 machine. It currently has 2x 160GB drives and SAS5IR controller.
I'd like to replace the drives with 2x 2TB Western Digital Green Caviar drives in RAID1. Is there any reason I can't do that? The specs show a smaller drive max, but is that just because larger drives were not available at that time or is there some other limitation?
The specs for the system show:
Maximum internal storage
- Up to 600GB: two 300GB cabled SAS (10K rpm);
- Up to 1TB: two 500GB cabled SATA (7.2K rpm)
Hard drives
- 3.5” SAS (10K rpm): 73GB,146GB, 300GB;
- 3.5” SATA (7.2K rpm): 80GB,160GB, 250GB, 500GB
http://www.dell.com/downloads/ap/products/servers/en/PESC440_spec_ap.pdf
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tommo666
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July 14th, 2011 16:00
I use a 440 as a V1 home server, i have put in 4 disks, 2 on the mobo and 2 off a sil3142 add in card. It worka perfectly. I don't think there would be any issues using 2TB disks. As these should be supported by the bios. Larger disk 3tb or so may be an issue. The sc440 supporst 64bit os's so home server V2 will install but you may have to be creative with the drivers. I do use a pci network card in place of the onboard mainly because i got one cheap off ebay. I do recommend an intel server nic.. Oh and it has been running since V1 release without issue, no hardware or software failure, maybe i'm lucky.
tommo666
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July 14th, 2011 16:00
Forgot about the raid part. The sc440 doesn't natively support raid. You would need to use an add in raid card ro use raid or the built in software raid of server 2008 . Sil 3132 and Via cards will provide raid 1 support and these won't break the bank. But these buget cards are a mix of hardware/software similar to newer motherboard supported raid. so again creative use of drivers. Also adding extra disks is linited
hfournier
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July 14th, 2011 17:00
As I mentioned, it has a SAS5IR controller already, so it can handle RAID.