LittleGreyCat
Dabbler
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- Jun 5, 2020
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I am (or used to be) reasonably IT literate but I have no experience of the software or the hardware so life is about to become interesting.
The Proliant is in transit so I can't look inside it but I am reading as fast as I can.
Which means my brain is melting.
With the Proliant I have four LFF (3.5") drive bays.
According to the User Guide, with luck the rear of the drive cage will plug into a SAS connector on the Mother Board and this will leave me with 2 * SATA ports and a micro SD card slot.
I am assuming that the SD card is for installation of the OS if all 4 HDDs are in use for RAID(ish) storage (or empty on first configuration) and the two drive bays aren't available because extra power supplies and/or optical drives.
Then again it could just be for transferring pictures from your camera. :)
So I am likely to have a load of obvious and probably naive questions as I gradually get up to speed.
Any input from other Proliant Microserver owners will be most welcome.
I also have 4 * PCIe slots but reading the specification of the Intel Xeon E-3 processor it looks as though I can use 2, 3 or 4 depending on the speeds selected.
I'm currently debating what to do with them, including a SATA controller and/or an M.2 adaptor if I decide that I need more/faster storage.
Anyway, I'm drifting away from introductions and into questions I should be answering elsewhere.
Hello!
The Proliant is in transit so I can't look inside it but I am reading as fast as I can.
Which means my brain is melting.
With the Proliant I have four LFF (3.5") drive bays.
According to the User Guide, with luck the rear of the drive cage will plug into a SAS connector on the Mother Board and this will leave me with 2 * SATA ports and a micro SD card slot.
I am assuming that the SD card is for installation of the OS if all 4 HDDs are in use for RAID(ish) storage (or empty on first configuration) and the two drive bays aren't available because extra power supplies and/or optical drives.
Then again it could just be for transferring pictures from your camera. :)
So I am likely to have a load of obvious and probably naive questions as I gradually get up to speed.
Any input from other Proliant Microserver owners will be most welcome.
I also have 4 * PCIe slots but reading the specification of the Intel Xeon E-3 processor it looks as though I can use 2, 3 or 4 depending on the speeds selected.
I'm currently debating what to do with them, including a SATA controller and/or an M.2 adaptor if I decide that I need more/faster storage.
Anyway, I'm drifting away from introductions and into questions I should be answering elsewhere.
Hello!
