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Josh Y.
Asked: 2012-02-09 14:18:34 +0800 CST

SSD in early 2008 Xserve Apple Drive Module

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Pretty much the title: it possible to use a modern, 2.5″ SSD in an Apple Drive Module on a early 2008 Xserve? This would be replacing a 15k RPM SAS drive, and in most places I've looked that HDD is almost as expensive than a similarly sized SSD.

ssd sas sata xserve

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    SSD drives behave exactly like standard disks, so the only thing you should care about is the drive's interface. If a SSD drive has a SAS interface, it can be conneted to any SAS disk controller, regardless of the surrounding hardware and operating system.

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  2. Unless you can make the ssd run at 1.5 Gbps it will not be recognized.

    I tried this on early 2008 Xserve and the flash was not recognized.

    Same thing with a newer SATA hard drive, but you can jumper 5-6 on the SATA hard drive to make it run at 1.5Gbps (instead of 3 or 6 Gbps)

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