HP ProLiant / DL120 / G7 / E3-1220 - Do they come with caddy

[sultan966]

I want to buy one of these server and buy the hard disks separately. I want to know if these come with caddy. HP hard disks are very expensive. If anybody has experience with this server please let me know.

[jamesfed]

Have to by the drives separately - the images you may have seen on the website with apparent caddies in are just blanking slots which can’t be used to store a drive.

Although not a ‘right thing’ the reason you have to buy HP drives is to ensure compatibility with the HP RAID Controllers (not that I haven’t been able to successfully use non HP drives in HP servers before but its best to be on the safe side).

 

So....you WILL have to buy drives separately.

[SHimmer45]

The HP 360G7 was the same, i have a feeling that actually getting the caddies on their own is difficult/impossible had a issue with a Dell server once.

[jamesfed]

The HP 360G7 was the same, i have a feeling that actually getting the caddies on their own is difficult/impossible had a issue with a Dell server once.

 

Its possible to get some from eBay now and again but they are treated like gold dust - another option is to buy some cheap HP 160GB SATA server drives and then put your HDDs in the caddys that come with them.