Hi Everyone!
I'm running Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL360 G5 Server:
Serial Number / Product ID: CZJ713035W / 399519-421
2x dual core xeon 3,2GHz
7 GB RAM
1x HW-Raid-Controller "Smart Array P600"
5x HDD (SAS, 146 GB, 10.000 RPM, Model HP DG146ABAB4, PHY Transfer Rate: 3.0GBPS) forming RAID 1+0 (with spare drive).
It should be able to run about 3 KVM and 5 OpenVZ guests simultaneously without performance problems (not much database activity or i'll give her a seperate disk).
I'm planning to upgrade my hard drives to HP Model 507127-B21 300GB disks but they are really expensive (List price 540.55 USD).
Before buying cheap, old drives i suppose it's better to buy any (new / not-so-old) 3rd-party devices?
Has anybody some information / suggestions / advice which hard drives do a good job (--> performance is most important) for moderate money?
I have 1 free HDD lot so i could also use 6 drives (and maybe change to RAID-5 to get more space for my money).
Best regards,
Heiner
I'm running Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL360 G5 Server:
Serial Number / Product ID: CZJ713035W / 399519-421
2x dual core xeon 3,2GHz
7 GB RAM
1x HW-Raid-Controller "Smart Array P600"
5x HDD (SAS, 146 GB, 10.000 RPM, Model HP DG146ABAB4, PHY Transfer Rate: 3.0GBPS) forming RAID 1+0 (with spare drive).
It should be able to run about 3 KVM and 5 OpenVZ guests simultaneously without performance problems (not much database activity or i'll give her a seperate disk).
I'm planning to upgrade my hard drives to HP Model 507127-B21 300GB disks but they are really expensive (List price 540.55 USD).
Before buying cheap, old drives i suppose it's better to buy any (new / not-so-old) 3rd-party devices?
Has anybody some information / suggestions / advice which hard drives do a good job (--> performance is most important) for moderate money?
I have 1 free HDD lot so i could also use 6 drives (and maybe change to RAID-5 to get more space for my money).
Best regards,
Heiner