Dell DAS, SAS drives or SATA.

[Andri]

hi all...
seems quite roomy in here at the moment. (i think this is the right place for this type of question or would HDD forum be better?)

just looking for a few ideas on what to pack out a DAS box with.

we are currently in the process of moving most of our servers to virtualisation.
We primarily do MS SQL database development and we have a rough idea what we are going to do as far as server configuration.

I’m just looking few a few different ideas from the folks at OCUK.

Right the question’s.

We have a Dell Powervault MD 15 slot DAS, it came with 2 74GB SAS drives and 5 146GB SAS drives(all 15k).

Would we be better off sticking with more higher capacity SAS drives or just getting loads of cheap high capacity SATA drives?

Speed isn’t a huge concern at the moment.

 

[Andri]

Hi there,
thanks for the replys

Unfortunately SCSI isn't an option.
i have also noticed that this DAS box is very picky about what SATA drives it likes as well.

So SAS is definatly the way to go.

 

[Andri]

Hi all,

thanks for all the information.

at the moment i am starting to lean towards SAS drives.
As far as SATA drives go from what i have read about our dell PowerVault it is very picky about what make SATA drives it uses.

i am aware that i will need SATA 2 drives but also need to find out what SATA 2 drives are compatable with this PowerVault.