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waloshin

waloshin

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What is this white slot on the left hand side, by the battery ? Its an hp proliant dl 140 generation 1.

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I'm not familiar with the ProLiant 140, but I have worked on a lot of the 3 series servers. It looks like a PCI expansion slot mounted on riser board. You would use it to put stuff like a RAID card, extra NIC, etc. You probably have some holes or a punch out in the back of the server to put the back of the card through.
 
My guess would be, due to the length of the slot, PCI-Express x16 or PCI-X64.
 
That server is too old to have PCI Express, I'd say it's a 64bit PCI slot.
 
I was spot on then. :)

I don't know a great deal about servers, so I couldn't have known how old it was anyway.
 
Thanks everybody!

I was wondering as it is Pci-x at 133mhz = 1Gb/s, could I buy a sata 2, Pci-x card and use it without loosing performance? And if so would it be recognized by the bios?
 
I suppose you could. If you can find a controller. As it is the only slot (as I can see) it doesn't share the bus with anything else, thus the real life speed should be pretty decent, if you can find a decent card.
 
Heilage said:
I suppose you could. If you can find a controller. As it is the only slot (as I can see) it doesn't share the bus with anything else, thus the real life speed should be pretty decent, if you can find a decent card.
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So 2 western digital green drives, probably would use 90mb/s*2 = 180mb/s which wouldn't come close to 1000mb/s of the pci-x bus speed?
 
Yes, that should be just fine. Theoretically, at least. I can't speak for real life speeds, as I haven't tried a setup like that.
 
waloshin said:
I was wondering as it is Pci-x at 133mhz = 1Gb/s, could I buy a sata 2, Pci-x card and use it without loosing performance? And if so would it be recognized by the bios?
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PCI-X was used for SCSI cards and fiber cards before PCI Express replaced it, I doubt you would find a PCI-X SATA card but PCI-X slots accept standard PCI cards so you could install a standard PCI SATA card into it.
 
oxfan said:
PCI-X was used for SCSI cards and fiber cards before PCI Express replaced it, I doubt you would find a PCI-X SATA card but PCI-X slots accept standard PCI cards so you could install a standard PCI SATA card into it.
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SuperMicro 8 Port SATA PCI-X NAS RAID Card AOC-SAT2-MV8
 
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