Hi,
a customer has multiple Primergy systems (RX2540 M2, RX300 S8, TX300 S6).
Most of these systems have 2.5" disks.
We want to reuse the RX2540 which currently only has 8 x 300 GB disks (and 16 slots usable). If we want to configure it with 2 x 300 GB in RAID1 and 6 x 300 GB in RAID5 we only have approx 1.5 TB for the RAID5.
Can we reuse 2.5" disks from the older systems?
The RX300 also has 300 GB disks and the TX300 has 64 GB disks.
If possible we would reuse 2 x 64 GB in RAID1 for the OS partition and then have 14 x 300 GB in RAID5 which is 4.2 TB.
The size 2.5" looks okay but we are not sure if the drive cages or carriers can be reused in the different Primergy models. They all seem different.
We also need to know how we can pull out the empty drive cages or carriers from the RX2540. They seem to be stuck.