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Updating drive sleds in a G4 Xserve
Authored by: Numbski on Sep 14, '04 11:09:26AM

Care to point us to your source of drive sleds? That's the most useful part of your hint. I've known for quite some time that I could get normal drives to work, but the fact that sleds are hard to come by is the problem.



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Updating drive sleds in a G4 Xserve
Authored by: capojava on Sep 14, '04 11:32:54AM

Any idea if the sleds in the G5 work the same way? I.e, could I buy an Xserve G5 with 3 80 Gb drives and swap them out for 250 Gb ones?



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Xserve G5 drives are SATA
Authored by: daveschroeder on Sep 14, '04 01:34:32PM

Xserve G5 drives are SATA (Serial ATA), but yes, there's no reason that wouldn't work.



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If my experience with other 1u servers
Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Sep 14, '04 01:11:21PM

applies, what you have to do is take the old drive off it's sled and put the new drive in it.

Bit of a pain, but not really that hard. Certainly easier than the 1u linux box I had the other day - I had to literally dismantle the frame to get the old drive out.

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