Re: [OT] server question

["ianh1000" <ianh1000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,=20

I can confirm that the server will just come with a small blank to=20
ensure correct airflow. I do not think you can buy the caddy on its=20
own, if you could as a spare part it would probably cost as much as a=20
caddy with a drive installed anyway.=20

The full list price for a 500GB disk is =A3185, I would expect you to=20
get some discount off that.=20

Regards
Ian=20

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Jonathan Hall" <jonathan@...>
wrote:
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> All my experience of HP servers, and I work for a hoster, is that=20
they are
> just blanking plates.  You maybe able to find a third party caddy,=20
one
> customer did for the old range of HD caddies.
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> Jonathan
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On=20
Behalf Of
> Paul Gordon
> Sent: 26 September 2007 13:05
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] server question
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> Sorry for two OT's in one day, but I know there are some people=20
here who are
> familiar with recent HP Proliant server stuff....
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> I'm looking at the ML150 range, - these are *really* reasonably=20
priced (for
> the main unit anyway). Typically the VFM falls off when you start=20
to put
> HP's branded parts in it... :-(
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> With particular regard to the hot-plug SATA drives, - HP charge in=20
the order
> of =A3200 for a 500GB SATA drive, - routinely available for around
=A350
> elsewhere... - since HP don't manufacture hard drives, the drives=20
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> supply must be the same Seagate/WD/Maxtor/HDS drives available=20
anywhere, so
> I would prefer to buy my SATA drives from my usual suppliers...
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> My only question regards the hot-swap caddies... - I haven't been=20
able to
> find out if drive caddies are provided in the empty slots in the=20
chassis, or
> if the chassis just comes with dummy blanking plates in the drive=20
slots (I
> know previous Proliants were usually the latter). - In other words,=20
do I
> *have* to buy HP's drives at HP's utter rip-off prices, just to get=20
the
> caddies that are essential to use them in the server? (=A3150 for a=20
plastic
> caddy is absurd!) - Plus do HP modify the firmware on the drives=20
they
> supply?
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> TIA
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> Paul G.
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