XW4400: upgrade HDD to xw4400?

I have a HP XW4400 workstation (RB282UA).

I need to replace the hard drives (I bought used a few years back).

What I have to use 'HP' hard drives, or can I use any brand?

I did a search on cdw.ca for "hp xw4400" and pointed out some fairly expensive items, IE: CAN$ 168 for a 160 GB HARD drive HP!

Eeven the RAM is up there, so that I can buy 4 GB ram on Ebay (even from US) and have it shipped in way less than the price of the PEC for 2 GB!

I note that on neweeg.ca I can get a 1 to WD for about $65 - that is why I ask.

Is there some special firmware in the readers of "HP"?

According to me, they have also a reburbished WD for nearly $30 can.

Any advice?

BTW: just use it for Linux and * BSD at the present time.

You can use the hard disks of brand. I note that the XW4400 can use sata or scsi (pronounced scuzzy) hard drives. SATA drives are just plug and play removable by anyone but scsi disks take some expertise to set up so make sure you know what you have and what you replace. HP readers, you've seen perhaps scsi drives since they time to be much more expensive than the SATA drives. I would avoid given to nine drives. Same with RAM; No matter what brand it is compatible speed type and it uses ECC memory, which is not your ordinary walk-into-Best-Buy-and-pick-some-up kind of memory.

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