[reezin14]

May depend on what raid card/controller is in the server but this could help (bottom of pg.24, all pg.25)
I would check eBay for drives.

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/Getdocument.aspx?docname=c04199811



http://www.harddrivesdirect.com/proliant_build_DL380_G7_Hard_Drives.php

 

[USNSS]

Does it have a RAID controller or are you SATA straight to the main board? If it has a RAID controller, check it's specs and verify that it is indeed compatible with the disk's you're using. Older controllers like the PERC6/i's had some robust features but only supported small disks.

 

[Atomfix]

Yes. It has the P410i Raid Controller. Currently have 2x 72GB 10K SAS Drives in Raid 0 which is used to boot Server 2012 R2. I have one old 160GB Hitachi HDD (SATA) and 1 500GB Seagate HDD (SATA) in.

It can be very picky with the hardrives I use. I could stick one of my 500GB Toshiba HDD's in, and a couple of mins later the fans ramp up to 76% and thinks it's overheating. It gets seriously loud, especially when it sits in my living room next to the TV

 

[givmedew]

I know this might be a stupid idea that might not work at all... but have you given any thought to tossing in a cheap card like a H200?

If that won't work I'm sorry for the recommendation. I certainly am not someone who knows what they are doing but I have a (2) Dell r210ii servers and a dell r710 and I can say that I did not have the most luck just tossing drives into the r710 but the one r210ii that is running has ran just about everything I could throw at it. Of course it also has 6 on board ports on top of the H200 but I only have the optical on that.

 

[speed_demon]

We had an HP DL380 at a company I worked for and it was incredibly picky with drives. After swapping out a bunch of RAID cards and varying capacity drives our IT guy ended up using identical 36GB 15K rpm drives to keep the system happy.

Cost our company buku dollars to troubleshoot so maybe that info will be of some help to you.

 

[ChRoNo16]

It has to do with drive compatibility.

read this

http://dascomputerconsultants.com/HPCompaqServerDrives.htm

Find drives compatible or they will keep causing this. This is 100% why I ditched my HP server and bought a Dell R710- I can put whatever drives in I want and I dont have any issues.

 

[TheOwlHootHoot]

I remember having this issue only when throwing in an SSD, but that was back when I had a Proliant G5 2U.

I'm using HP G7 blades now, HP Smart Array P410i Controller I believe, and I'm throwing in Toshiba Drives 300GB SAS 10k drives I got from recycling at work. No issues on my end.

 

[feitnignen]

I had the same problem on a DL360 G6, I ended up replacing the fans with quieter ones and water cooling the cpus and chipset.

It was more effort than I thought it would be.

 

[jeepkeys1986]

I know this is an old thread but Im sure others out there have this server at home. I also have a HP DL380 G7 server that I use as a workstation but I have not experienced any abnormal fan behavior when adding hdds. What bios are you running? I have version P67 from 07/02/13. Also my p410i is v6.40 if that helps.