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Enter the HP Z820
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[Alex Gerulaitis] “It doesn’t. There are only two “styles” of drives used on Z-series (and elsewhere) – SAS and SATA. If your Z uses SATA, they are compatible with any solutions outlined above. SAS – only with some (and usually not with stand-alone duplicators).”
Just to add to this — the Z800 (and I assume Z820) has a set of cables that run from the SATA/SAS headers on the motherboard to the backplane where the tool-less, easy-insert drive sleds slide in.
Access is very easy.
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[Walter Soyka] “Just to add to this — the Z800 (and I assume Z820) has a set of cables that run from the SATA/SAS headers on the motherboard to the backplane where the tool-less, easy-insert drive sleds slide in.”
Aye, same exact design on the Z820 – working on one for a client’s MC6 system. Unlike Z620, the Z820 is very similar to the previous gen (Z800), with the exception of a new memory / CPU cover with integrated fans. It’s a bit of a bear to take it off.
Z8-series, like the new Dell T7600, allow for up to 8 internal drives total using standard HP parts (4 3.5″ in cold swap bays, 4 2.5″ in optical bays; drives in optical bays will not have cold-swap or front access; still fully tool-less). The T7600 on the other hand has front access and cold-swap for all of its 8 possible drives. Otherwise the two are very similar.
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Tom, re: your backup/imaging SW, I’ve used Acronis, Paragon, and NovaBACKUP, for both servers and workstations. The best I’ve found is a (little known) product called Macrium Reflect. I’ve ditched all other SW in favor of this and use it exclusively. Macrium is a UK company and their user forum is WELL read by Macrium engineers and responses are usually same day (outstanding). They know their product insight and out and you can usually find any issue address in the their knowledgebase. I had never heard of it before someone on a NovaBACKUP forum turned me on to it. It has the best VSS support for in-Windows imaging that I’ve found, and also has a WinPE boot disk version as well with on-the-fly driver support. I found it to be faster than all the others too. Plus it is less expensive than the others. Acronis, for example doesn’t even support VSS in-Windows imaging (good luck if Windows, a DB, or an app has a file open). You can find out more at https://macrium.com/. At any rate, just another data point…
Also, I have heard, but haven’t experienced myself, that if you CLONE a drive with an imaging app, the Disk ID will not be the same (e.g. Windows can’t have two drives active on the same machine with the same ID), therefore, in some cases it has been reported that Windows complains that you don’t have an ‘official’ version on that disk when you try to boot from it and wants you to activate. It takes some working to get things set straight again. The work-around is to just do a copy of the disk then restore the image to your new disk using the boot disk option with the other disk disconnected. The Disk IDs will be the same.
I’m just one click away on my order of a new z820 too, but it’s not as maxed out as yours. 😉
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[Shane Taylor] “Also, I have heard, but haven’t experienced myself, that if you CLONE a drive with an imaging app … Windows complains that you don’t have an ‘official’ version on that disk when you try to boot from it and wants you to activate.”
Won’t be a problem on HP (or any other Tier 1) systems: Windows activation is purely machine ID specific, not disk ID, Mac address or any other hardware.
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Thanks for the info Shane. Actually Ive already started using Paragon and with a little guidance I have already done what they call a Disk Migration to a bootable driver. It brings over both the boot/windows partition and the apps. Its very quick. And Ive successfully tested the copy by booting off it.
I appreciate you taking the time to write.Tom Daigon
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