[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

[Gary Gendel]

David,

I assume you have the 4 disks in some sort of RAID configuration. If you 
want to sweat it, you can pull one drive out and have it re-silver the 
replacement drive, repeat for the second drive, etc.  If you do this I 
would run a scrub before pulling each drive, just in case.  If you have 
some particularly important stuff I would copy it somewhere.

One other silly thing you might do is to get an external USB enclosure 
and use that.  You then mirror one of the drives and then shut down and 
swap them.  If it doesn't work then swap them back.  I haven't tried 
this so YMMV.

I have an 8-port sata controller but use 6 mirrored pairs (2 internal 
and 4 external in a 5-bay chassis) in my setup.  This allows me to add 
drives to a mirror and remove others with reduced anxiety. The setup is 
getting old (It's about 12 years running now) so I'm looking for a 
low-cost, low-powered replacement.

Gary


On 02/12/2015 05:36 AM, david allan finch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what to do for an upgrade?
>
> I have a HP Proliant Microserver N54L with 4x 2Tb drives which I have 
> been happy with for more than a year but I have started to run out of 
> disk space in my zfs pool. I have been pruning the snapshots and 
> rubbish but filling it up now is inevitable.
>
> What I would really like to do is to swap the disks out for larger one 
> but I doubt that this is really practical as to make this work you 
> need spare disk slots which I don't have.
>
> Another option might be to add a SATA card and add more disk that way. 
> But I have no idea of where to start with this, and even if this 
> microserver can do that.
>
> And a third is just to get a new server. I can't see any which have 
> more than 4 drive bays do these exist (for reasonable money) or do you 
> need to make your own? If so anyone got a recommendation?
>
> Thanks
> D
>
>
>
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