FYI: The eight-bay version of the DL180 G6 uses a non-expander backplane with two SFF-8087 ports, which is good for those wanting to use SSD drives. Further, the eight-bay chassis is actually a ten-bay chassis. The two blanking plugs can be removed and replaced with standard HP drive trays - my chassis even included a SATA power cable to power them. The two extra drives don't have a backplane so they aren't hot-swap, but ten drives is better than eight. You can wire the drives to an HBA or to the motherboard, which has six SATA2 ports.Tempting but the backplane is SATA I so limited to 1.5Gbps (SAS 3Gbps).
Shame as I need a unit for my SSDs and haven some credit outstanding with MCP.
RB
12HDD Models HP Smart Array P212/256MB Controller (RAID 0/1/1+0/5/5+0)
So it is the SAS controller not the backplane. Cannot find the specs of the backplane.Smart Array P212 Controller
Disk Drive and Enclosure Interface
3G SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
1.5G SATA (Serial ATA)
Thanks for the info. Very interesting.FYI: The eight-bay version of the DL180 G6 uses a non-expander backplane with two SFF-8087 ports, which is good for those wanting to use SSD drives. Further, the eight-bay chassis is actually a ten-bay chassis. The two blanking plugs can be removed and replaced with standard HP drive trays - my chassis even included a SATA power cable to power them. The two extra drives don't have a backplane so they aren't hot-swap, but ten drives is better than eight. You can wire the drives to an HBA or to the motherboard, which has six SATA2 ports.
Yes. It can. Its a standard PCIe slot with a single SFF-8087 cable running back to the HBA. The expander is "friendly" to non-HP cards. I run mine with a M1015 flashed to IT mode (the P410 was removed before I bought it...).So on the 14 bay version can the HP P410 Raid controller be remove and replaced with something else like an LSI, or is it proprietary? I could survive with a new raid card and a port for an Infiniband card. But if there is just a single PCI-e slot I cant use it.
Too bad there are not more of the 12 by versions out there.....
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Yes. It can. Its a standard PCIe slot with a single SFF-8087 cable running back to the HBA. The expander is "friendly" to non-HP cards. I run mine with a M1015 flashed to IT mode (the P410 was removed before I bought it...).
There is an x16 slot and 2 x8 slots and 1 x4 slot!
but the 2 drive bays sit on top of the (2x8,1x4) slot.
Are you creative?
Hello, just wanting to confirm, something there seems to be different comments around HBA / Expanders / Sata drives.Yes. It can. Its a standard PCIe slot with a single SFF-8087 cable running back to the HBA. The expander is "friendly" to non-HP cards. I run mine with a M1015 flashed to IT mode (the P410 was removed before I bought it...).
8 Bays isnt enough, especially since its going to be used for VM storage and I need the extra spindles for the SAS drives. I have a 12 bay Chenbro right now that I need to pair with for redundancy.I'd find the lefthand like versions with 8 bays and no expander. They are far superior.
Could you put typical SATA desktop hard drives in these? Like could you fill this with cheap 4tb hard drives?HP Proliant DL180 G6 Storage Server 2 x Six Core L5639 8GB RAM Rails 008835859909 | eBay
RAILS!!
This dude will configure it any way you want - IE want 12LFF instead? Just ask! Cool guy!
I think we can agree this deal is SICK!
Want a better motherboard? The $25 motherboard I posted above turns this into the storageworks (AKA Lefthand P4300 G2 or X1600) with full ILO2 and well not so janky bios
HP Proliant DL180 G6 Storage Server 2 x Six Core L5639 8GB RAM Rails 008835859909 | eBay