Hard Drive Question - Small Form Factor/Large Form Factor

[riddler83]

This may be a stupid question, but I just can't get anywhere with Google so Im going to ask it anyways!

We have a hp proliant ml350 with 2 72Gb 2.5 inch SAS drives (hot plug). I need to maximise capacity in a big way on this machine, and fill out the remaining 6 hot plugs slots so that the machine is at least 1.5 - 2TB.

Therein lies the problem, with SFF the largest disk I can get is 146 Gb, so no chance of even 1TB. The question is this:

Is it possible to remove the SFF cage, insert a LFF cage (which would enable me to put in larger drives), and then get some form of converter to allow me to use my SFF drives also? A lot of work has gone on and I would hate to lose the drives. Any ideas??

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[edfair]

You are well past my experience level with the drive types and sizes, but my suspicion is that the smaller drives would mount in a 2.5 to 3.5 adapter. Do a google search for "hard drive adapter" and see if one of those would take care of the mounting.

Ed Fair
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[wahnula]

I would leave the SFF drives and cage where they are, and, depending on room, get a multi-drive cage:

http://www.directron.com/storpacks34.html

that will fit in your empty 5.25" bays in the case.

Tony

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[riddler83]

Thats good info guys, Ill take a look at both ideas and pass on a recommendation to the bossman.

Thanks for your help

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