So I have a Dell R230 with the 4x3,5" backplane and today I upgraded from SATA 6G to SAS 12G disks (HGST Ultrastar He12). HBA is a Dell H330 attached to the backplane. Although both the HBA and the disks are capable of SAS 12G, the negotiated speed is reported as 6G in iDRAC. Am I missing something here?
Hah, pretty much the same for me. Pentium 200 MHz but with 48MB RAM, Debian 2.2 „Potato“ but upgraded to Woody soon. LAMP, FTP, Samba. Hosted my own website and a friend’s PHP project, some sort of newsletter management software iirc. Another Pentium machine got repurposed into a router running off a single floppy disk with the fli4l project. No disk drive, fanless, yet rock stable. I still have a screenshot of it reaching 1y uptime. This stuff really got me into IT. Good times.