Hello,

We have been running Open-E v6 FULL on our PowerEdge 2950 for a few years now, and it works just fine. I seem to remember that there is a single spare SATA socket on the motherboard, so Open-E can be installed on a DOM, leaving all you hard disk bays free for data storage.

We are using a PERC6 controller now with SATA and SAS drives. Previously we just used the onboard NON-RAID controller with SATA drives in software RAID, which also worked.

I have no experience with the Tape Drive, I'm afraid.

Best regards

TFZ