SNAP 4500/4200 Limits

[longshot]

I confirmed back in November that 4x750 works fine.

http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/sho...3&postcount=61

[bush781]

I have a adaptec snap server 4200 and would like to know if I can upgrade the storage from 4 x 250GB HDs to 4 x 500 GB HDs

[blue68f100]

Yes, you can, just need to transfer the os only to a new HD. Just answered it on another thread.

[Phoenix32]

Yup, no problems...

[bush781]

thanks for all the help

[Metal]

Originally Posted by Phoenix32

I don't know. I do know the 4200/4500 sleds are not the same as the 4400, and the 4400 and 715N use the same sleds. But as far as the 725N, I have no idea, I wish I did.

Note: The sleds for the 4200/4500 are very slightly shorter than the 4400 sled. I think David and somone else (Sorry, I forget who now) posted some pictures of the 4500, 4400, and 715N drive sleds here somewhere a week or so ago.

I know this is an old post but the snap 4200/4500 and Dell 725n sleds are the same.
HTH
Jim

[moxy]

Not to resurrect a really old thread, but I've been doing some reading and this seems like the most logical thread I've come across to post the questions I have.

I decided to buy a 4500 on ebay based on some info from this site and have a couple minor concerns:

1. I've installed four Seagate 750 gig HDD's in it, but the BIOS only sees two of them at once. Several people have said on here that it should work... am I doing something wrong or are they supposed to work like that?

2. I've attempted to install FreeNAS via either USB stick or a USB CDROM drive. I've enabled "Boot From USB CD-ROM" option in the BIOS (and even disabled all other boot forms for the sake of my experiment), but it won't boot to this CD. In fact, it won't even spin the drive up to read from the disk. My laptop boots off this CD just fine and goes into the livecd. Thoughts?

[blue68f100]

The 4500 does support the 750gig HD's, atleast with v4 GOS. The Dell and 4200 are different. They look the same with on minor difference. The 4200 has a ID chip that identifies it as a Snap unit. This is required for GOS.

There is a thread where FreeNAS was installed on a 4500. There was one issue that needed addressed.

The bios should see all HD, not that it is required for a linux OS. It does it own discovery process. I would swap drives and sleds to see if you have a hardware problem the reason in only see 2 HD's.