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Very basic only raid 1 only on vm plus one for a backup powered down
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Very basic only raid 1 only on vm plus one for a backup powered down

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Hi Everyone,<br />
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Can anyone advise to the following<br />
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I am needing to upgrade an old x3550 with some new HDD i am finding it a little hard to get drives as per its age and was trying to get some 300gb 15k<br />
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This machine i dont think have 15k in 300 listed but i have been advised that i can use M2 300 15k drives and change the Caddy.<br />
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My question is quiet simply is there a lot of difference that i will see<br />
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It is running at the present Windows 2008 Std and with 74GB 15k i am going to install ESXi on it and virtualize with the new HDD<br />
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The Server is used as a TS with abotu 15 Users on it<br />
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The 10K ones are very much more available so if i am not going to see a lot of difference easier to go that way but thought i would ask.<br />
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Thanks Adam
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Hi Everyone,

Can anyone advise to the following

I am needing to upgrade an old x3550 with some new HDD i am finding it a little hard to get drives as per its age and was trying to get some 300gb 15k

This machine i dont think have 15k in 300 listed but i have been advised that i can use M2 300 15k drives and change the Caddy.

My question is quiet simply is there a lot of difference that i will see

It is running at the present Windows 2008 Std and with 74GB 15k i am going to install ESXi on it and virtualize with the new HDD

The Server is used as a TS with abotu 15 Users on it

The 10K ones are very much more available so if i am not going to see a lot of difference easier to go that way but thought i would ask.

Thanks Adam

HDD Selection 10K or 15K

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Servers are computing devices that are similar to desktop computers in that they have the same basic components, but are significantly different in size, configuration and purpose. Servers are usually accessed over a network, and many run unattended, without a computer monitor, input device, audio hardware or USB interfaces. Many servers do not have a graphical user interface (GUI), and are configured and managed remotely. Servers typically include hardware redundancy such as dual power supplies, RAID disk systems, and ECC memory, along with extensive pre-boot memory testing and verification. Critical components might be hot swappable, and to guard against overheating, servers might have more powerful fans or use water cooling.