Server hard drive question

My boss bought us an eBay special, a nice HP DL380 G5 server with dual 3 GHz DC Xeons and 8GB of RAM, minus the hard drives. Not bad for around $400! It can take SAS 3 GB/s or 6 GB/s drives. In my experience with desktops, you're not tied down to a specific manufacturer for drives. Is that the same with these SAS drives? The reason I ask, is because the 300 GB Lenovo SAS drives on Newegg are over $100 cheaper than the 146 GB HP SAS drives! I can get the HP drive caddies for about $10 each.

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Everyone

Correct, you don't have to use the HP drives.

arwes

Everyone wrote: »

Correct, you don't have to use the HP drives.

Here's the drives I'm looking at:

Newegg.com - Lenovo 67Y0118 300GB 10000 RPM SAS 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal Hard Drive

The thing that concerned me was this statement in the feature list: Compatibility: Lenovo RD210 ThinkServer Lenovo RD220 ThinkServer

saspro

A sas hdd is a sas hdd. It's generally the tray it's screwed in to that decides what servers it'll fit in to.
If its just for labbing or storage you can slap consumer sata drives in the tray and it'll work fine.

arwes

Ah cool, thanks for the help guys! It's going to be my new help desk machine. Spiceworks for now, and possibly Kayako Fusion soon if they get OnSite 2.0 working well enough.