Add SATA to PE2900 with SAS

[ben1234zz]

Hi

We have a PE2900 running 6 SAS drives attached to a PERC 5/i.

We are looking to add some cheap storage to the server and would like to add two 1TB SATA drives as RAID 1 to keep costs down.

Am I right in saying that the SAS drives are 2.5" and SATA is 3.5"? If so is there any way of doing this?

Thanks
B

 

[PaulGillespie]

You can get 2.5 inch SAS and 3.5 inch SAS. If you have a 2900 i'm pretty sure you have 3.5 inch drives.

I thought the thoery behind SAS and SATA interfaces was that you could mix and match with SAS/SATA but the array would obviously run at the slowest speed. I've never tried it myself though. If you have a Dell warranty you could try asking them.