I've seen some HP Proliant DL380 G4 with 6-bay 3.5" HDD support, but I'm not sure what kind of connector the motherboard uses for hard drives. I found some photos of hot-swap HDD holders for similar servers and they all show hard disks with non-SATA connector. I really wanted to use my old SATA 3.5" hard drives with this server, though looks like they might be not compatible, I wasn't able to find any SCSI to SATA adapter that doesn't cost more than an HDD itself.
The official PDF says there're 2 versions, SCSI and SAS version: h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/images/ap/DL380G4_v37.PDF But the insertion I found doesn't specify anything about that. In the back, on the left there's an additional SCSI port, pic related. I imagine this version uses SCSI connectors for the hot-swap hard drives, maybe I should contact the seller. Do any adapters exist for this kind of connector? it should pass both data and power to the HDD, unlike conventional SATA that uses separate power connector.
Hudson Morgan
>Maximum Internal Storage Type
>Hot Plug U320 SCSI - 1.8 TB - 6 x 300 GB with standard internal hot plug SCSI drive cage
>Hot Plug SAS - 576 GB - 8 x 72 GB with standard internal hot plug small form factor SAS drive cage
It kinda sucks, doesn't it? I wonder why there's this stupid storage capacity, could it be bypassed with some firmware hack or is it due to hardware limitations?
Xavier Lopez
looks like u320 scsi
Nolan Gray
also I have a dl380 g4, it's trash I'm afraid. I've got a 360 g6 and it's okay though
Nathan Nguyen
>360 g6 The specs look very nice, how much storage can it handle? what I see in google images shows 4-bay, can't really tell whether it's 3.5" or 2.5" though.
Connor Bailey
>What does Sup Forums recommend for starters?
Don't get a rack mounted server. Racks and rails are expensive, noisy AF, power hungry & poor value.
Just get a hp gen 8.
Brandon Sanchez
Why the fuck do you need a server you fucking creep? Games don't use more than 4 cores and you can fit that in any standard ATX case
Brody Powell
>Maximum Internal Storage: Non-Hot Plug SATA 16TB (4 x 4TB) 3.5" SATA Looks better than the 6-bay rack-mountable server, but it also costs 3 times the price.
I don't need it for games. It's for backups/filesever and these rack-ready servers seem the be the most economic choice, it's just the HDD capacity and format that doesn't seem very feasible.
