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Adding Sata drives to dl380 g7 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 hours ago by papelitofeliz@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I just got a dl380 G7 for free, with one processor. And 6 free 2.5 drive slots (2 of them are in use). I want to move my services to the new server hardware and repurpose my old media server but I'm a bit out of my depth, never worked with this type of hardware before.

  1. I didn't exactly check what processor is installed. Do you think it will be able to handle transcoding?

  2. I have a sata drive case with 5 3tb 3.5 HDDs which I used to use as storage for my media server. How would I go about connecting it? I'm happy with software raid.

I'm thinking about geting this HBA (sc08e), a couple of sas <-> sata cables and an external power supply. But it is clunky.

I also read about maybe using cable connectors for the drives in the dl380. Maybe like this?

I love the idea of having a DAS but don't want to spend that amount of money. Will keep my eyes open for one tho.

Thanks!!

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

dl380-g7 is some really old stuff. 1st gen westmere. not very power efficient for the performance. there's no hardware encoding (qsv with encoding started with some 2nd gen).

how well it can do software encoding would depend on the cpu. but don't expect too much, and nothing more demanding than h264 avc at reasonable settings. you'd need a newer video card with hardware encoding for hevc, av1 or anything like that.

iirc there was a 6bay 3.5in option for those, and that cage/backplane might be available somewhere.

[–] papelitofeliz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Wow you seem to know your stuff, I'll keep looking for the 6bay enclosure.

I'm not finding much from where I am from, but found a guy selling a really cheap MSA30 with 150gb disks on all bays. There are so many acronyms.

Do you think this would work or does it require specific disks? I have no idea how it interfaces with the server, it seems to have a network interface?

Sorry If i'm being too dense, enterprise stuff is complicated and usually not compatible

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 1 points 55 minutes ago

the only 6bay lff cage for it i found online after a quick search was over $400usd.

as others mentioned, msa30 is scsi (yuk). along those lines, you'd want the msa60 which is sas/sata, plus somewhere on the server to connect it to. probably not cheap.

but i really don't think it's worth putting a whole lot of time or money into a 15 year box.. at least not anything that can't be used in or with newer stuff later.

i'd probably just grab some 2-5tb 2.5in hdd for media storage and use those before i bought something specific for that old hardware.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

MSA30

Unless my memory fails, that's billion year old SCSI drives.

Do not buy billion year old SCSI drives, enclosures for SCSI drives, or uh, well, anything like that.

It's going to use an enormous amount of power, perform slower than a single modern drive, and be prone to failure because well, it's a billion years old.

That's not something you want.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Really, just don’t buy SCSI at this point.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You can probably put a GPU in it for transcoding.

What interface does your current drive cage expose?

[–] papelitofeliz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I've read about the G7 having problems with hardware that it does not recognize. Fans increasing to 100%

The cage exposes 5 satas plus I think 2 Sata power supply. I think that the pcie hba sas + sas to Sata cables solution is the best way to go. It should allow future disks expansions pretty easily.

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I had a dl380 g6 and if a non hp certified gpu was put in it would increase the baseline Fan speed to almost full. Even though the other GPUs temperature values were correctly recognised by the ILO processor.

It was ridiculous.

Maybe its better on the g7 but I wouldn't count on it.