{"id":70,"date":"2017-03-19T20:43:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodslife.co.uk\/?p=70"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:43:17","slug":"replacing-r200-terastationwith-dell-r410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodslife.co.uk\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Installing extra drives in a Dell R410"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently acquired a Dell R410. It was a bare system, and although it came with the front bezel and a key, it didn’t have any processors, RAM, heat sinks, drives, or drive caddies.<\/p>\n

Processors: I already had a pair of these, although low spec, they were not going to cost me anything.
\nRAM: I had 32Gb of EEC registered memory, again this would do for now.
\nDrives: I had a Buffalo Terastation\u00a0ts-rxl\u00a0which I had upgraded to 4x 6TB WD RED drives in raid 10. So these were going to be relocated.<\/p>\n

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Off to eBay to order some drive caddies and heat sinks.<\/h4>\n

I found some caddies for about \u00a37.55 each and some heat sinks for just under \u00a314 the pair. Ordered and awaited delivery.
\n\"Dell<\/a>\u00a0\"ebay<\/a><\/p>\n

The caddies arrived very quickly, but i couldn’t do anything with them until the heat sinks turned up.<\/p>\n

The plan was to use the four removable drive bays in raid 5, but I needed somewhere to install the OS.
\nWhile I waited i came up with a plan! Install the Memory, Processors and find space for two additional drives!<\/p>\n