Date: 06/29/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web

Ok guys, I wouldn't be asking anything from the community unless I have the answers myself, and believe me, this has been bugging me for some time now.

Long story short, I recently got my hands on a free second hand Dell PowerEdge 4400 server.

From what I can tell and what was told to me, it has:

Dual P3 Xeon 866mhz
1.5gb Ram pc133
1x 16gb 10k SCSI HDD
Windows 2000 Server (?)
Integrated VGA
SB value 16bit sound card

Unfortunatly, I don't have a spare monitor nor outlet space, so I haven't booted up the tower yet.

Now, the server uses a hot swappable SCSI array (of which flavor, I haven't found out yet).

Is there anyway to make this machine accept IDE or SATA drive, or rig something like an IDE or SATA array. I mean, It was used as a Web Server, so I could understand the pathetic single SCSI HDD, but I myself would want to give it a bit more of a functionality by giving it more HDD room. I don't want to use "Server Grade" HardDrives since they aren't exactly cheap at all. I would rather stock this server with cheaper drives that has a higher storage capacity. The machine, will at the most, might turn into a type of Audio/media storage server, ideal for home and for use to share the said file in my college dorm/network. Reliability and redudency will not be a top priority for right now.

This is my first real server to hold and call my own. I'm a PC power user, but by no means an expert. If anybody can help, please do. I give my thanks in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/943942.html