#Hp proliant ml350 raid drivers for mac full#

Thanks all for your comments by the way :)Īt that point it is approaching break even with using RAID 0. So I'm not too sure what down time is inherent from 1 drive failure? Regards the down time for a rebuild in raid 5, I'm certain our Lotus Domino email server (server 2008) is using raid 5 and did a rebuild while the email server was still functioning fine. Other than using the 16 147GB drives in raid 5 to virtualise as many as their key systems as possible with the bit of redundancy that gives over no raid, I'm not sure what else to do for them to be honest. The IT guy on site has basically been told if something sets on fire he can purchase a disposable fire extinguisher to extinguish just that single fire, after it's broken out. I'm not entirely sure how expensive it would be to remove the 16x 147 GB drives and replace with 4 x 2 TB 2.5' SAS drives but it's more than they have (they've only been able to get the HP server by using my expenses account). We are talking about a company here that's posting a loss each month with cat5 network cables running across the outside externals of the building to save cost in the past (It only fell under my wing last month), no network labeling, an ERP system running on an oracle database on server 2000 and its application on a server 2003.Īll the servers have between 100gb and 500gb storage despite all being server 2000 and server 2003. Changing the capacity to SAS drives to fit in it would be more expensive than the server itself (£350 off ebay). The HP380 Gen 7 was bought with 16 x 147gb disks already in it. These kinds of questions always need to be asked before things are purchased, rather than after. Oh yes, he already bought the server without proper planning at this point, sadly. About why Redundant RAID? If he's OK with 1-2 days downtime to rebuild the network from backups go for speed.

However I also agree with what you're saying. My reading is that he has 3 x 1TB drives already so buying more is an issue, which is why I suggested 1 extra 1TB (my $200 price was for SAS too). That shouldn't make any actual business with employees even blink. Not that you should get as much capacity as you can afford, I'm just saying that we are into a price range that I don't have to check with my wife before buying for fun projects at home. We are way below the 'Home line' here in terms of affordable capacity for servers. What makes two 2TB drives in RAID 1 expensive or not an option, in that case? We are talking about systems much smaller than my six year old systems at home. Yes, I know a raid failure would be also expensive to recover from but it's easy to back up that whole 2 TB of VMDK files to an external USB so a complete raid failure wouldn't necessarily be disastrous. There's not really a decent cheap option to set a raid 1 or 10 up there without reducing that capacity to 1 TB. Now we can virtualise all their servers onto this HP but would need the 2TB of drive space.

#Hp proliant ml350 raid drivers for mac full#

It's to replace about 10 server 2000 and server 2003 servers in a business that's really really struggling for cash! ATM they are really riskily running all these old servers with no full system backups, only data backups. Trouble with raid 10 and raid 1 is the expense comparatively.įor example, where I work we just bought a HP D元80 gen 7, 16 * 147GB disks. Support for 12 user accounts with customizable access privilege.I have been told: HDD: RAID5 will improve performance use SAS drives.Sure, until a disk fails and everything is down because of the rebuild times.Īlso bear in mind there are so many things which can screw up a RAID 5 rebuild that chances of successful complete recovery from a disk failure are fairly low compared to almost any other RAID type - Except 0 where your recovery chances approach zero.Industry Standard 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell security (SSH).Automatic IP Configuration via DHCP/DNS/WINS.Browser, command line and scripted access.Dedicated & full function shared network connectivity.Integrated Lights Out 2 (iLO 2) Standard Management: Find great deals on eBay for hp proliant ml350 g5. HP- 800W, 850W and 1000 Watt (at 100, 120 and 200-240 VAC) Hot Plug Redundant Power Supply option for Compaq ProLiant D元80 G5, D元85 G2, D元85 G5, M元50 G5 and M元70 G5 Servers.