[GTALUG] Dell servers for cheap

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Apr 9 11:31:28 EDT 2019


On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:08:27AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> I bought one a couple years ago, not quite as cheaply as listed previously
> though, and can add that it is possible to put a SATA drive into the bays
> you are limited to a hard 2 TB limit (would guess that its related to 32 bit
> access somehow).

2TB is 2^32 512 byte sectors.

But yes SATA drives should work, if it is a machine with 3.5" drives,
rather than 2.5" drives that some of them use.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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