Hi all,
For those out there who are using one of these - how are you powering your boot drive(s)? Booting off a partition in the RAID? Internal USB stick?
I ask because I was planning to use the entire RAID array for data and boot from an extra mirrored pair of drives mounted in an Icydock under the DVD drive. Merrily I bought an HBA card and cable.. only to realise that I can't plug in the power plug of said cable anywhere on the HP motherboard - no 4-pin Molex 3.5" floppy drive power headers on one of these!
So, can anyone suggest where I might tap power for a pair of SAS drives? What worries me is that they take +5 and +12 volts but I don't see any obvious place to find those voltages.
Thanks for any alternate experiences with boot configuration for these servers or else tips on how to power extra non-RAIS drives,
Ian
For those out there who are using one of these - how are you powering your boot drive(s)? Booting off a partition in the RAID? Internal USB stick?
I ask because I was planning to use the entire RAID array for data and boot from an extra mirrored pair of drives mounted in an Icydock under the DVD drive. Merrily I bought an HBA card and cable.. only to realise that I can't plug in the power plug of said cable anywhere on the HP motherboard - no 4-pin Molex 3.5" floppy drive power headers on one of these!
So, can anyone suggest where I might tap power for a pair of SAS drives? What worries me is that they take +5 and +12 volts but I don't see any obvious place to find those voltages.
Thanks for any alternate experiences with boot configuration for these servers or else tips on how to power extra non-RAIS drives,
Ian